Jade Skirt: The gods and spirits are so important to my people ... dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households buried their dead underneath ...

Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha ... felt sure that this opening had been closed to protect something important. In the vaulted burial chamber of Temple XIII at Palenque, Mexico ...

The fact that the cenote is directly northwest of the main staircase of El Castillo, the famous central pyramid ... These and other questions involving the Maya people’s relation to their ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the ... Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal ...

It begins to help us imagine how people thought about their daily lives, about how they made choices.” The new findings differ from what was found when other ancient Maya regions were examined with ...

Guatemalan chaman Christian Nottbohn holds a Mayan ceremony in Rastrajon, once a settlement of warriors destined to protect the ancient city of Copan, in Copan archeological park, some 400 kms ...

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 ...

The most famous parts of the Popol ... In this way, dancing for the ancient and modern Maya is a method of connection, not only between people but also gods, spirits, and ancestors.

The ancient ... Indigenous people in a bad way,” he said. “And now they feel this is a way to tell people, ‘Look, we are the ...