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 ...

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 ... it was common to adopt the name of the Maya god of ...

Critics have ridiculed the 21-year-old’s new product, called “Friend”—an A.I.-powered, always-listening necklace that chats with you through text messages—throughout its development.

What the Maya did was horrible. They thought it was justified. Edit2- Interesting the reaction to my comment about groupthink and to this one that just expounds on the same concept.

Much as the Aztecs did later on, repaying the gods sometimes involved human sacrifice for the Maya.The ball court at Chichen Itza, for example, has friezes that show how players were sacrificed. “The ...

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 ...

The skies and the gods were inseparable in Maya culture. Astronomers kept careful track of events like eclipses in order to perform the renewal ceremonies to continue the world’s cycles of rebirth.