Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Art catches his bipolar character ... Center, “The Dance of the Macaws in Santa Cruz Verapaz,” shows how the ancient Maya culture that thrived in pre-Hispanic times still resonates in the ...

a curator of ancient American art at the Met, says in the statement. “As archaeologists continue to make major discoveries, our knowledge of Classic Maya visual culture becomes enriched ...

“Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening at the Metropolitan ... and much of Mayan culture was destroyed by the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s. Even today, however, many Mayans ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, in a ...

NBC 5 and the Kimbell Art Museum invite you to experience Lives ... to the forefront new discoveries and understandings of Maya culture. Recent advances in the study of Maya hieroglyphs have ...

May was 17 years old when he started sculpting wood while studying Maya Culture at the Autonomous University of Yucatan, taking inspiration from Maya architecture around his region. One of his ...

Card art for "Resplendent Angel" in "Magic ... “Bats were a very big part of the Mayan culture, and a lot of people worshiped bats. Just that specificity — I really admire it.

Discarded and abandoned, the function of these sites and artifacts—temples, pyramids, remnants of art ... of the Maya.) Though their descendants have preserved some of their culture’s ...