The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.

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

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. However, no ...

Even after 2,000 years of exposure to the intense heat and humidity of the Yucatán jungles, the temples, statues, and murals painted with the fabled pigment known as "Maya blue" remain as vibrant as ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

The National Museum of Mexican Art is working in collaboration with the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and ...

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

Escape the heat this summer and immerse yourself in the art of the ancient Americas at the New ... explore the monumentality and naturalism of Mayan art from Campeche, Chiapas, Copán and El ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, from ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a ... as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one probably ...