A recently discovered carved panel in Calakmul, Campeche, depicting a probable captive, could reshape our view of the Mayan ...

These newly discovered figurines dating back to 7500 B.C. are believed to be linked to the burial practices of an ancient ...

In the north of the country, Wayang kulit Kelantan is being revitalized through contemporary storytelling and the long-overdue inclusion of women.

TOKYOPOP kicks off Summer with 16 new manga and Light novels, many of them part of the publisher's LoveLove imprint, and all ...

“For the Classic Maya, in many ways, clothing defined personhood,” says Alyce de Carteret, a fellow in Art of the Ancient ... ceremonial practice of self-sacrifice. “All these examples ...

Now, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. of more than 130 Maya masterworks ... torture or sacrifice. Their jewels have been plucked, and strips of cloth now fill ...

Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies ... Teotihuacan. The sacrifices of infants fit with ...

The Sacred Cenote in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, is a natural well used by the Maya in religious ceremonies, including human sacrifices ... a professor of art history at the University of ...

A detail from a Late Classic vase from the Peten region depicts a Maya queen (above right ... those involved with sacrifice, and those undertaking ritual fasting. Shades and patterns of red ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — In 1967, an underground cistern known as a chultun was discovered near a sacred body of water at Chichen Itza, an important ancient Maya city on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.