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 ...

It was long thought that the ancient stone pyramid temples of the Maya were built by their royalty. Now it turns out any number of different factions among the Maya — nobles, priests and maybe ...

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 ...

Guatemalan chaman Christian Nottbohn holds a Mayan ceremony in Rastrajon, once a settlement of warriors destined to protect the ancient city of Copan, in Copan archeological park, some 400 kms ...

"I couldn't take them to all 22 [departamentos], but I can take them to Sam Noble and show them what they should be proud of." "Guatemalan Textiles: Heart of the Maya World" is on display through ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Some people fear that breaking a mirror can lead to seven years of misfortune. The history of this superstition may go back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who ascribed ...