Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, in a ...

Across southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, ancient Maya cities lie scattered like puzzle pieces waiting to be ...

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 ...

Press conference May 16 at 10:30 a.m. CDT at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago The limestone frieze dates between 500 - 900 CE, during the Classic Period of Maya civilization in Mexico.

Along with other children, I broke away from the tour group and wandered among the chambers inside the ancient Mayan edifices. I ran my hands along the walls, imagining that if I pressed a stone ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, from ...

The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and paper. Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of ...