They were big chocolate eaters. The transformation of cacao bean to chocolate was discovered by the Olmec people more than ...

Between the third and 10th centuries, the Maya civilization flourished across Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. At a sacred site called Chichén Itzá, sacrificial victims were painted blue and ...

Maya society was very complex. There were hundreds of cities. Different classes including: commoners, a middle class, nobles and the king and his royal court. Maya people lived in different cities ...

Masks from the tombs at Calakmul were meant to ease the passage of the Snake elite into the next world. Royal visages made of green jade, more valuable than gold to the ancient Maya, evoked the ...

The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

With modern day Maya still living where their ancestors once did, these discoveries help them to recover and reconnect to the parts of their history that were so brutally destroyed by the invading ...

The results of facial reconstruction were compared with the malachite mask, as well as with sculptures of Maya women, which are rendered in a style noted for its individualized expressions.

He also prepared papier-mâché casts of several carvings from which accurate drawings were later made. Maudslay had effectively given Maya studies its first systematic corpus, or body ...

Researchers have found a treasure trove of structures from an ancient civilization — by using a modern technology.