The ancient city of Chichen Itza is said to have ... and the gods and goddesses have had a big impact on the Mayan people and their way of life. Studying these gods and goddesses helps us ...

Farming was at the centre of ancient Maya life. But these people are also remembered for other amazing creations, like their spectacular buildings and beautiful objects made from jade, a rare and ...

Discover which foods the ancient Mayas grew and the importance of farming to their civilisation. What foods did the Maya eat? Find out what food people grew and ate in the Maya civilisation.

"People are excited about it," she said ... scenario," said archaeologist Kathryn Reese-Taylor, "not the ancient Maya." How the end would come Those who believe the world will end this year ...

These and other questions involving the Maya people’s relation to their gods ... in the beliefs and world vision of the ancient Maya of Yucatán. Archaeologists had known that the Maya regarded ...

Deep among Guatemala's northern rainforests is the Tikal complex of Mayan ruins. A Mayan city known as Yax Mutal, the capital ...

Photo from Xavier Sicart Chavarría via INAH Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s but ...

Auld-Thomas's adviser, Tulane professor Marcello Canuto, said the extensive data they collected will "allow us to tell better stories of the ancient Mayan people," marrying what scientists already ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest ... beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably ...

Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World Heritage site, the ruins of Palenque lie in the lush basin of the Usumacinta River in the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

The cave is filled with hundreds of monumental relics from the ancient Mayan civilisation ... is studded with monumental relics of the Maya people, whose cities drew upon an extensive network ...