Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín continues his ongoing exploration of the knot and its capacity for metaphor at Elizabeth Xi Bauer ...

The Tiwanaku society thrived around the highest navigable lake in the world – before their mysterious disappearance ...

The Maya civilization had one of the most intricate religious systems in the ancient world. From powerful gods like the maize god and the rain god Chaac to the complex calendar cycles and ancestor ...

The study determined that Maya society saw a sharp increase in population that peaked around 730 A.D. at 19,000 people.

The study determined that Maya society saw a sharp increase in population that peaked around 730 A.D. at 19,000 people. According to researchers, the spike likely occurred thanks to the emergence ...

38 Fascinating Facts About The Mayans By Media Feed | Published 3 months ago Although some people perceive Mayans as heart-eating barbarians, they were actually one of the most advanced civilizations ...

This procession continues on the northern wall, which depicts 10 people, including five dancers wearing hybrid Spanish-Maya attire and two dwarfs wearing Spanish clothing and carrying long sticks.

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people.

A culinary journey across the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico - From Valladolid to Merida, Radhika Aligh travels across state to ...

The discovery stems from a burial of more than 100 people in an underground chamber discovered in 1967 at Chichén Itzá, a once dominant Maya city in what’s now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.