The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has unveiled a new major exhibition of Maya art. ... Her work can be found in Wired, Rolling Stone, PBS NewsHour, Grist, Gothamist and others.

A stone panel, dating to the eighth century A.D., of K’ab Kante’, a ruler of the ancient Maya kingdom of Sak Tz’i’. The ruins of Lacanjá Tzeltal, a settlement at least 2,500 years old ...

The stone sculptures found at the site "are especially poignant and are similar to many other examples of Maya people making offerings to vital sculptures and connecting with their ancestors by ...

The Maya concept of the universe was built on dualities found in nature, and the show, a collaboration between the Met and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, takes the opposing states of ...

An ancient stone statue of a Maya death deity, dating back more than 1,400 years, has been discovered in southeatsern mexico. Experts from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH ...

Other famous Mayan structures are known for their height, like the pyramids of Caracol or Chichen Itza. ... “The only stone ...

A high-relief wall sculpture showing a female ruler subduing a captive male warrior was just uncovered, authorities in Mexico said Monday. The statuary found at the Mayan ruin site of Ek'Balam, on ...

A new statue of a female ruler subduing a male warrior was discovered at a Mayan ruin site in Mexico. The sculpture depicts the female grasping the captive man’s hair.

The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and bark paper. Using an interactive map, visit 15 of the better ...

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—According to a Mexico News Daily report, a rare stone sculpture of the Maya god K’awil has been discovered in the path of the Mayan Train Project, which will connect ...

Archaeologists working in Guatemala’s Petén jungle have discovered three ancient Mayan cities ... dubbed “Los Abuelos” or “the Grandparents,” contains stone sculptures of a man and ...

Ocomtún, with large pyramidlike buildings, stone columns, a ball field and imposing buildings and plazas, was likely an important city, anthropologists say. IE 11 is not supported.