Ancestor worship was important and similar to the Shang dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households buried their dead underneath the floors ...

The explorer Jacques Soustelle called Bonampak "a pictorial encyclopedia of a Mayan city ... beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas ...

Rather, it is a huge Mayan city consisting of over 6,500 structures with homes, pyramids and land on which the Maya people once worked and lived. That this ancient city had been hiding just a ...