Recently, scholars studying these pre-Columbian artworks have gained new insights into the life of the ancient Maya kings and their retinues. Now, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in ...

“Blood was the mortar of ancient Maya ritual life,” wrote groundbreaking epigrapher Lin-da Schele and art historian Mary ... such as Double Bird, Jaguar Paw and Curl Snout.

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed ... the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one ...

The view from the top of Tikal’s Pyramid of the Lost World over the dense forest of the Maya Biosphere Reserve and Temple IV. The fall of the ancient ... of the Great Jaguar for a lintel ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose ... Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more ...