A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

Temple VI lays claim to the most extensive hieroglyphics in the Mayan world ... a professor in the department of art and art history at the University of Texas in Austin, responds: "Vertical." ...

Cinnabar was used as a pigment in Maya art, and its red color may have been regarded as sacred. Evidence of its use in funeral rites has been found at other Maya sites, and the color may have ...

“There is no single artifact of the Maya that tells you as much about its time and place as the Bonampak murals,” says exhibition co-curator Mary Miller, a professor of art history at ...

Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one probably an ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.