Warfare and trade were important aspects of Maya society and so was art and architecture. This is the ancient city of Tikal. 1300 years ago it would have been called 'Yax Mutal' and was home to ...

“For the Classic Maya, in many ways, clothing defined personhood,” says Alyce de Carteret, a fellow in Art of the Ancient Americas at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Numerous aspects ...

We also have other types of art too…our pottery ... Yax Mutal' was one of the most powerful cities of the ancient Maya. You are now standing in Palenque, which the ancient Mayas called 'big ...

Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably well ...

The ancient Maya feel alive everywhere you look. Golden ... “A missing piece of the puzzle fits into place,” Golden says. ART TREASURE: A stela found at the Sak Tz’i’ site, which Golden believes is as ...

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient Mesoamerican people.

Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha ... Cinnabar was used as a pigment in Maya art, and its red color may have been regarded as sacred. Evidence of its use in funeral rites has been ...

As a scholar of the Indigenous religions of the Americas, I know that the ancient Maya had a different take on cracked ...

Dancing appears often in Maya culture; it is seen in ancient art and mentioned in both Indigenous and Spanish accounts, and traditional dances are practiced to this day by the modern Maya.