Mayan healers were known as shamans, and they were integral parts of Mayan society. They were known for performing cleansing rituals and had a deep understanding of how to use plants to help cure ...

To study ancient Maya dress, then, is to study ancient Maya society itself.” By the second millennium B.C., the Maya occupied much of southern and eastern Mesoamerica, including all of the ...

it is good to see that more secrets of the Classical Mayan society are being recovered. With modern day Maya still living where their ancestors once did, these discoveries help them to recover and ...

Maya society was very complex with hundreds of cities, commoners, a middle class, nobles and the king and his royal court. Even though they lived in different cities, ruled by different kings and ...

I grew up around waste,” says Maya Tamang, a community mobiliser at Biocomp Nepal, a social enterprise working on waste management in Nepal.

Maya clothes helped people identify between the richer and the poorer people in Maya society. Fabrics were an important part of religious beliefs and art. Women were the traditional weavers in ...