The Mayan city-states often warred just to get captives to sacrifice to the gods. Other times, families offered up their ... "The looters come in many forms," he said, drawing deeply on a cigarette.

On one side of the sculpture, two serpents intertwine and hold a grotesque figure and a blood-letter (an instrument that allowed one to draw one’s own blood for sacrifice to the gods). Performing ...

In Jorge Gutierrez’s Netflix fantasy epic “Maya and the Three,” audiences ... into the underworld and battle against sinister gods. Drawing influence from Mesoamerican history, art and ...

Stone carvings depict the heads of gods emerging directly from these ... a 7th century queen consort in the ancient Maya city, drawing a barbed rope through her tongue.

Along with the mosaic mask designed to resemble the Maya storm god, researchers found 16 mollusk shells and hieroglyphs carved into human femurs (thigh bones), including one drawing depicting a ...

Over the next six centuries, the Maya built a network of cities that supported millions of people in what is now Mexico and Central America. “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening ...

By Scott Roxborough The production firm behind children’s show Maya the Bee, which streams in the U.S. on Netflix, has apologized for an episode of the animated series that included a drawing of ...

She stumbles upon a locked chest containing (most of) the dismembered body of one of the Lords of Xilbalba, a Mayan god of death called Hun-Kamé, and frees him — becoming spiritually linked to ...

dating to the first century A.D. The mask depicts the ruler with the forehead hair decoration of the civilization's maize god, a common portrayal of Mayan culture's deified kings. Other symbolic ...

The photo has surfaced on several Mayan doomsday discussion forums. But was the light beam a sign from the gods — a warning about Dec. 21, 2012, the date that marks the end of the Mayan calendar ...

an animal that represented several forms of ancient Maya gods. Catherwood’s highly romanticized illustration is one of the only Western records of the colossal head before it dropped to the ground. It ...