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

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

Across southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, ancient Maya cities lie scattered like puzzle pieces waiting to be ...

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

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

Recently, scholars studying these pre-Columbian artworks have gained new insights into the life of the ancient Maya kings and their retinues. Now, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in ...

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...

Deep in an underground cave in Guatemala, archaeologists stumbled upon hundreds of fragmented human bones showing signs of ...

Among the ancient Maya, caves ... The Hero Twins and their adventures are amply represented in Classic Maya art, and because subterranean structures were viewed as entrances to the underworld ...

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