In this image of Izamal’s great pyramid, Kinich Kak Mo, the colossal head of a Maya figure looms high above the expedition’s naturalist, Dr. Samuel Cabot, Jr., and an unnamed Maya attendant.

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

“For the Classic Maya, in many ways, clothing defined personhood,” says Alyce de Carteret, a fellow in Art of the Ancient Americas at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Numerous aspects ...

Maya Lin is a contemporary Asian-American artist and architect ... Somewhere between science and art, art and architecture, public and private, east and west,” she has explained. “I am always trying ...