Combining sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation, the ancient “milpa” system of the Maya revealed ...

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 ...

Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of more ...

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 ...

The Mayan civilization dates back to 2000 B.C., and extended through what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras. During the civilization's peak, from A.D ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified what seem to be tools used by the ancient Maya for tattooing 1. The civilization of the ancient Maya, who lived in what is now Mexico and Central ...

Maya blue, discovered by modern researchers in 1931, is not an easy pigment to make. Echoing the color of an azure sky, the ...

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.