To the sky-gazing Maya, the pyramids in the Yucatán, others of which were aligned with the rising and setting suns of equinox and zenith days, would have seemed not landbound piles of stone but ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

Tulum was the largest Maya coastal city and the only Maya city ... Copan ruler 18 Rabbit named Cauac Sky as ruler of Quiriguá. But 13 years later, Cauac Sky defeated 18 Rabbit in battle and ...

One of many gods thought to inhabit the sky, earth and underworld, the Maize God, according to Maya belief, was lured to the underworld, where the death gods murdered him, burying his body and ...

The INAH statement continues: "In the second, there are images of individuals who—allude to ancestors who seem to inhabit the night sky, with stars, snakes, and other motifs typical of Mayan and ...

Maya society was very complex with hundreds of ... The city is surrounded by jungle. From the sky you can only see a couple of temples, including the Temple of the Great Jaguar.

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Fanatical numerologists, the Maya appreciated events linked by numbers ... the badge carries symbols of the sun, sea, and sky as well as a stingray-spine bloodletting lancet.

Maya people made offerings to their gods in order ... They broke up the land into several regions that represented maps of the stars in the sky, including Palenque, Calakmul, Tikal, Copán ...

He wondered, what if the Maya mirrored their cities on the constellations they saw in the sky? For a year, Gadoury painstakingly plotted 22 constellations onto a map of the Mayan empire.

Photograph by Francesco Lastrucci The sky today is more obstructed by trees, but seasonal rituals of the Maya calendar, including a festival to celebrate the spring equinox, have lately been ...