They were big chocolate eaters. The transformation of cacao bean to chocolate was discovered by the Olmec people more than 3,500 years ago. But it was the Mayan people who made chocolate the ...

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 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.

Archaeologists in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo have discovered some tools the Maya used for their cultivation of bees. The finds were of three limestone lids that prevented bees from escaping ...

Only when local Maya learned to store water by digging chultunes, or small underground cisterns, were they able to expand their numbers significantly in the region. Each Sayil household had at ...

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 ...

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 ...

And the latest of these trends taking off online? Well, that’d be the Mayan Rizzler: This picture has taken social media by storm, but, more than that, it says something interesting about how ...