Maya cities were not merely ceremonial; instead, they were a patchwork of feudal fiefdoms bent on conquest and living in constant fear of attack. “Blood was the mortar of ancient Maya ritual ...

The discovery of an early ninth century burning event marks a turning point in Maya rule, archeologists ... items include a jewel-adorned stone mask, fragments of a greenstone diadem, and jade ...

This pyramid was built in about 500 AD and has a central staircase adorned with five different 8-foot-tall (2.5 m) masks. There’s also the Residential Buildings, with the ancient Mayan beds they ...

Perhaps the most obvious of these is that they never entered the Iron Age; and even though some of them made bronze, metallurgy in general seems to have had mostly ritual, ceremonial and ...

She was preserved under a beautiful ceremonial mask of malachite and covered with jade ... The discovery happened in Palenque, Chiapas, one of the three most important towns of the Mayan culture along ...

and Mayan civilizations were seized and shipped to Europe. These civilizations used gold for sacred artefacts, ornaments, and ceremonial items. For the Spanish, these precious object were simply ...

You’re virtually guaranteed to find a few of these magical creatures swimming about just off the shore of this tiny outpost on the Riviera Maya. And you don’t necessarily need a fancy tour to get ...

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

The exhibition, developed by the Gab Titui Cultural Center on Waiben (Thursday Island) in collaboration with the National Museum of Australia, features 12 ceremonial masks, known as Kuyuku Zamiyak.