A 2017 article in The Economist announced, “Pioneers of gender equality, the Aztecs sacrificed women as well as men,” referring to a tower of skulls discovered in 2015 in present-day Mexico City. The ...

Throne 1, KK'in Lakam Chahk (785) Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has unveiled a new major ...

“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 ...

The inscribed mural fragments from the newly-identified calendar were uncovered from the remains of the Temple of Las Pinturas (“the paintings”) in the San Bartolo pyramid complex in northern ...

As a young girl, Dicey Taylor grew weary of art. She is now a scholar in the subject. On trips through western Europe, her parents dragged her to every historic building, museum and art gallery along ...

“Lives of the Gods: Divinity and Maya Art,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, explores how people give material shape to their religious beliefs. When it came to ...

NBC 5 and the Kimbell Art Museum invite you to experience Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, now through September 3 at the Kimbell Art Museum. This monumental and acclaimed exhibition brings ...

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 ...

The ancient script of the Maya baffled scholars for centuries. Widely viewed as one of the greatest civilizations of the Western Hemisphere, which peaked around A.D. 250-900, the Maya people of ...