Maya nobles wore mirrors on their backs, displayed them on thrones and set them inside tombs. Using hallucinogens, these nobles stared at their reflections, seeking mystical experiences.

However, the descendants of Maya nobles, priests, warriors, and farmers today inhabit the same lands as their ancestors and perpetuate their culture in the still spoken Indigenous languages and in ...

Now it turns out any number of different factions among the Maya — nobles, priests and maybe even commoners — may have built temples, scientists now suggest. The fact that different groups had ...

However, the archaeologists of the University of Bonn don't yet know whether they are prisoners of war from another Maya city that were sacrificed in Uxul or nobles from Uxul itself. Only with the ...

Image caption, The cities were home to the nobles of society and their extended families. Maya people believed kings, queens and nobles were chosen by God, so they lived in palaces in the centre ...

Second, it shows how Maya commoners related to their rulers: We assume that Maya kings and nobles controlled every aspect of peoples’ lives, but the evidence at Ceren shows the upper classes had ...

royal palaces and noble residences that represent the highest level of Mayan ­civilization's sculpture, art and writing. The Chinese archaeological team made significant progress ­excavating the ...