What is most astonishing about the meander motif is that it is found in the architecture, sculpture and decorative arts ... Mayan carvings. Still, we most closely associate the linear geometric ...

Art Deco draws on a variety of sources ... Miller and Pflueger covered the 26 floors with heavy Mayan Revival style patterns-undulating verticals of ornamented terracotta run from the first ...

A limestone stela created in 702 by an unknown Mayan artist depicting Ix Wak Jalam ... Republic of Guatemala to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and installed in the museum’s Great Hall ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents works from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The monumental head of Hun Hunapu, the god of corn, depicts one of ...

An ancient Mayan city followed a unique grid pattern, providing evidence of a ... [In Photos: Mayan Art Discovered in Guatemala] People living in the area have known of the Nixtun-Ch'ich' site ...

The giant pattern - thought to represent a traditional Mayan head-dress - appeared next to the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe last week. Members of the crop circle community believe ...