“Deities," says Yale professor Oswaldo Chinchilla, "were part of Maya life. There was no separation between what we would call the natural and supernatural worlds.” Chinchilla co-curated "Lives of the ...

In 250, as the Roman Empire began to fall apart in Europe, Mayan civilization was steadily gaining in power and sophistication. Over the next six centuries, the Maya built a network of cities that ...

Researchers excavating the ancient Mayan city of Dzibanche, on Mexico’s border with Belize, have uncovered a rare set of stucco reliefs that shed light on one of the region’s powerful 1st millennia ...

A superb show on art and divinity educates and thrills. Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, the new exhibition at the Met, isn’t strictly an art show, though we can approach and enjoy it via ...

The milpa (a food garden based around maize crops that relies on ancestral techniques), the community kitchen, and assembly halls are places of learning for people of all ages in the Yucatán Peninsula ...