"These faces, these portraits, look at us from the past. Their gaze transports us to the royal court of the ancient and ...

Ancient written accounts tell of Maya kings theatrically impersonating deities in an effort to assume their own godlike control over life and death. Image Deity emerging from a flower, 600–900.

Ancient Maya Gods Get a Comeback at the Met Throne back, Usumacinta River area, Guatemala or Mexico, 600–909, limestone, W. 66 ½ in. (169 cm.). (Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.) ...

“These Maya artists gave form to the gods in inspired ways, through remarkable works of visual complexity and aesthetic refinement,” Joanne Pillsbury, a curator of ancient American art at the ...

Peaking in the Maya Classic Period of 250-900 CE, this civilization was home to complex architecture, sophisticated urban design, technological advances, mathematics, gorgeous art, and political ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics ...

The painting and artistry is not what sticks out to archeologists at a newly discovered ancient altar in Guatemala. ... [ Related: Ancient Maya masons had a smart way to make plaster stronger. ] ...

An ancient Mayan artifact will be returned to Mexico after decades in the hands of private collectors. Representatives from the National Institute of Anthropology and History unveiled the artifact ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics ...

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics ...