The ancient city of Holmul isn’t much to look ... Nikolai Grube published a book called Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, which described the intertwining histories of the kingdoms of ...

An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., entitled "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," highlighted the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new stucco reliefs at the ancient Maya city of Dzibanché, providing fresh insights into the ...

Even though they lived in different cities, ruled by different kings and queens ... Looking for more ways to introduce your class to ancient Maya? In this short video clip, Akbal introduces ...

New discoveries and science tell the story of how the ancient Mayans built such an incredible society in a tropical rainforest over 2000 years and then vanished.

Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya ... of over 39 successive rulers. The heart of the site ...

of bad kings and good kings in very different ways. It shakes up our picture of who the Maya were.” The research examined three valleys, each containing the capital of an independent kingdom, ancient ...

The Ucanal evidence suggests that the new rulers removed royal skeletons ... However, as a people, the Maya and much of their ancient culture continued – and indeed have survived to the present ...

Palenque's wealth of epigraphy (inscriptions) and recorded history has helped archaeologists to build the first time line of rulers of a Maya city—one that, while impressive, is still fuzzy in ...

How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an ...