The Mayan mythology gods and goddesses are filled with rich history, rituals, and mysteries — some of which we still uncover today — and some of which you can see in sculpture form when you visit the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of K'awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees ...

A study finds Classic Maya rulers used deity impersonation to strengthen political authority through warfare, lordship and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists unearthed a rare sculpture of a powerful Mayan god near the path of a large-scale rail project in southeastern ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered a roughly 1,300-year-old sculpture representing the head of a Mayan maize god in ruins in southeastern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said.

“Lives of the Gods: Divinity and Maya Art,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, explores how people give material shape to their religious beliefs. When it came to ...

Summer is the season for corn worshippers, so it’s the perfect time of year to appreciate a recent archeological discovery from Palenque in Chiapas. The highlands and dense rainforest of this southern ...

An illustration of K’awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA The ancient Maya ...

The ancient Maya believed that everything in the universe, from the natural world to everyday experiences, was part of a single, powerful spiritual force. They were not polytheists who worshipped ...