And at the peak of their civilization, from a.d. 600 to 850, the Maya built monumental cities and produced art—stone sculptures, painted ceramics, delicate figurines and jade jewelry and masks ...

Luck has played a part in conserving the Mayan, which has been around for nearly 100 years. So has creative adaptive reuse, including a spell when the giant space was one of Downtown LA’s most ...

The ancient Maya god K’awiil, left, had an ax or torch in his forehead as well as a snake in place of his right leg. K5164 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard ...

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 ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient stone slab with 123 hieroglyphic symbols in Mexico, revealing the founding of a town in 569 AD and details about Maya ... name of the Maya god of ...

A Poseidon statue in Mexico faces removal for offending Mayan rain god Chaac, amid jokes after Hurricane Beryl hit, prompting local concern and an official removal request.

As its name implies, the Maya would regularly sacrifice valuable objects and the occasional human by tossing them into the sinkhole to appease the Maya rain god, Chaac. (If the 89-foot (27-meter ...

Meghan Markle's initial necklace by Maya Brenner was worn by the Duchess when she first started dating Prince Harry. The style went viral and the brand has been a sellout success ever since.

Mexican gods symbols. Set of aztec animal bird totem idols,... Mayan culture and people set. Ancient civilisation icons in Mexico vector illustration. Tribal men and woman, Chichen Itza temple, ...

Every evening the sun god, Kinich Ahau, made the perilous journey through Xibalba, the Maya underworld, to be born anew at sunrise. Solar eclipses were seen as a “broken sun ” – a sign of ...