He plans to make a sacred altar for the Maya rain god, Cháak, in the hope that the lightning-wielding deity will nourish his crops and alleviate his village from extreme drought. He stops in his ...

He is thought to have controlled drought and crop growth, providing the energy that sustained his people’s agricultural fertility. This Mayan god of the sun is also renowned for his healing ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created by severe, prolonged drought. But new research led by Brandeis anthropologist Charles ...