A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

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

And if archaeology hadn't emerged in the 18th century, many of these civilizations would have become permanently lost to time ...

Reading offers a comprehensive analysis of mid-20th century Hindi print culture, examining the rise of middlebrow and lowbrow ...

Scientists from the USA and Denmark have discovered Mayan tattooing tools in the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, shedding ...

The traditional Chinese version of the sacred Mayan text “Popol Vuh,” an endeavor undertaken as a partnership between Taiwan ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role. New archaeological finds add to evidence that the Maya city of Tikal in ...

The altar—and the wealthy household behind the courtyard it once adorned—stands just a few blocks from the center of Tikal, one of the most powerful cities of Maya civilization. But the altar ...

Little by little researchers are unraveling the mysteries of the Maya culture of Central America. A new discovery unearthed by an international team of archeologists in the heart of modern-day ...

In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, online and off, damaged young ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...

Lidar technology is revealing that the Mayan civilization was more complex and interconnected than previously thought.