Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

Temple VI lays claim to the most extensive hieroglyphics in the Mayan world ... a professor in the department of art and art history at the University of Texas in Austin, responds: "Vertical." ...

Cinnabar was used as a pigment in Maya art, and its red color may have been regarded as sacred. Evidence of its use in funeral rites has been found at other Maya sites, and the color may have ...

A newly discovered altar, buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal, is shedding new light on the ...

and Maya Royals: Recent Discoveries from the Site of Buenavista del Cayo, Belize will be on view through February 27, 2022. It was organized by the San Antonio Museum of Art in collaboration with the ...

Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one probably an ...