They reflected the beliefs of the wider Maya world while also proclaiming Palenque’s own distinctive religious traditions and gods. “Maya” is a 20th-century term for the civilization that ...

Traditionally, excavations deep in the jungles of Mexico, Central, and South America are difficult at best and dangerous at ...

Mexican pyramids are a key feature of ancient Mesoamerican architecture. While they share some similarities with Egyptian pyramids, these structures have flat tops, often with temples built on them, ...

“Latin American Art/Arte Latinoamericano” sprawls across four galleries and the museum’s sculpture garden. It includes 200 objects from 40 cultures ... were notified in early April that ...

The massive temple complex was dedicated to Tlaloc, god of rain, and to Huitzilopochtli ... the Mexica (also Culhua-Mexica). In the early 1800s, German scientist and explorer Alexander von ...

Is your knowledge of the ancient Maya as extraordinary as their pyramids?

The link becomes more important when Joy Boy is revealed to be Nika, the Sun God. The Ancient Giants, with their extraordinary height placing them physically closer to the sun, may have shared a ...

Monkey D. Luffy's transformation into Sun God Nika sets the stage for a monumental clash against the Five Elders on Egghead Island. This battle symbolizes freedom versus control, as Luffy's Nika ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

The early Beatles’ songs might seem simple compared to the material they produced as their career advanced. They grew as songwriters as they gathered more life experience and exposure to other ...

Decorated with classical figures, animals and slogans, only about 30 of these early American flags survive ... The other is decorated with a yellow sun and the words “we are one,” surrounded ...