It presents the picture of a bustling and interconnected Mexico long before the modern world arrived with its roads and airports.

Te K’ab Chaak was the first dynastic leader of the Maya region of Caracol. Even after the king died, his dynasty last another ...

University of Houston experts conducting excavations at Caracol in Belize found the tomb, which revealed burial artifacts and ...

Learn more about Te K'ab Chaak, the first Maya king from Caracol whose tomb is rewriting the history of Maya-Mesoamerica ...

An ancient altar has been unearthed that is believed to have been used to sacrifice children in an abandoned 'city of the gods'. The archaeologist who led the discovery, Lorena Paiz, said the ...

The Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza, also known as El Castillo, stands as a testament to the Mayan civilization's advanced understanding of astrono ...

Each of the game's four gods - Cernunnos, the Celtic god of nature; Plutus, the Greek god of wealth; Acan, the Mayan god of wine; and Inari, the Japanese God of Rice and Prosperity - come with not ...

More specifically, Maya is a warrior princess on a mission to fulfill an ancient prophecy and defend the world from power-hungry gods.

An illustration of K'awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, ...

Ancient Maya peoples knew that human beings are not independent from nature but part of it.

(The Conversation) — Ancient Maya peoples knew that human beings are not independent from nature but part of it.

In this series, Lagniappe presents works from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The monumental head of Hun Hunapu, the god of corn, depicts one of ...