Known as the Campana structure, this pyramid was built using tephra, or volcanic ejecta, produced by the catastrophic Tierra ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, including piercing, body painting, scarification, and tattooing.

A pair of chert points found alongside human skeletons in a cave in Belize may represent the first known tattooing needles ever discovered from a site linked to the ancient Maya civilization.

The movements of all major planets visible to the ancient Mayans fit into this extended calendar. The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research ...

researchers have revealed new details about human sacrifice at the ancient Maya site of Chichén Itzá. Published today in Nature, these results show that contrary to popular belief, every one of ...

As a scholar of the Indigenous religions of the Americas, I know that the ancient Maya had a different take on cracked mirrors. During the first millennium C.E., the Maya used such mirrors – in ...

In the ancient Maya kingdom of K’anwitznal—a lowland city located in present-day Guatemala—dead royals weren’t always treated with reverence, archaeologists say. New research, published ...

Pre-modern societies watched the sky and created cosmographies, maps of the skies that provided information for calendars and ... across the lands of the ancient Maya. This follows the October ...

Explored during the History Channel's documentary, Ancient Aliens ... "We do know that the Maya calendar is heavily calibrated to the orbital parameters of the planets in our Solar System ...