The Mayan mythology gods and goddesses are filled with rich history, rituals, and mysteries — some of which we still uncover ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Maya maize god (made around 1,300 years ago). Stone statue, found in Honduras The sound of ...

NBC 5 and the Kimbell Art Museum invite you to experience Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, now through September 3 at the Kimbell Art Museum. This monumental and acclaimed exhibition ...

Metropolitan Musem of Art/Museo de Sitio de Toniná via Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. The Mayans believed their gods to be immortal, and if “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art” ...

The vivid mystery of that place permeates Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, the Metropolitan Museum’s rare exhibition of carvings and sculptures from Calakmul and other Maya metropolises.

The monumental head of Hun Hunapu, the god of corn, depicts one of the most important deities of the Maya pantheon. This fragment comes from the architectural decorations of the ruins of Copán ...

Over the next six centuries, the Maya built a network of cities that supported millions of people in what is now Mexico and Central America. “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening ...

An ancient ruler embodied by the Mayan god of corn in the underworld can be seen on an astonishingly well-preserved stone disk recently extracted from the Temple of the Sun in Mexico. The figure ...

Some of the best evidence for this comes from the behavior of two of the most powerful beings of the Maya world: The first is a creator god whose name is still spoken by millions of people every ...

This phenomenon is believed to represent Kukulkan's (a Plumed Serpent God, associated with the wind in Mayan Culture) descent to earth, a powerful symbol of renewal and fertility. In the ...