There are so many things about the Ancient Maya that history books just don't have time to cover. From their beautiful murals to their interesting body modification practices to their ingenious water ...

The Yucatán Peninsula is a land where ancient history and raw geology meet. Beneath its flat limestone plains lie endless caves, underground rivers, and cenotes—natural wells that sustained the Maya ...

Ritual killing was a common part of religious sacrifice in the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá. For decades, media depictions cast the victims of these acts as young women and adolescent girls. In ...

Introduction: the first sacred kings of Mesoamerica / Virginia M Fields with Dorie Reents-Budet -- Between heaven and earth: the cival cache and the creation of the Mesoamerican cosmos / Jeremy R.

Rising to power in the wake of the Classic Maya collapse, Chichen Itz was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual life ...

An indigenous man kicks the ball during a Mayan ball game match in Tecpan, Guatemala Dressed in shorts, girdle and uncovered torso, members of eleven teams from the Guatemalan indigenous departments ...