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

“While artist signatures are scarce on ancient art across the world before the 19th century, Maya sculptors and painters did sign their works, occasionally prominently, on beautifully carved ...

Indeed, most Maya religious art seems to have been conceived as both ... and of beauty itself as a saving grace. Image Stela 51, a stone portrait of the Calakmul king Yuknoom Took’ K’awiil ...

In the eighth-century carved stone slab from Calakmul ... projections and visual art. The decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs has been developing since the last century and is an ongoing project.

Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art is the first museum exhibition organized ... it was harder to destroy a nine-ton stone figure or, for that matter, entire temples. Because of the complexity ...

While artist signatures are scarce on ancient art across the world, Maya sculptors and painters did sign their works, sometimes prominently, on beautifully carved stone monuments and delicately ...

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 ...

Born in the depths of Central American tropical jungles, the Mayan civilization achieved great accomplishments in areas such ...

Stock image: A Maya stone altar in Copán ... their striking architecture and art, as well as their advanced calendar, mathematics, and astronomical system. The knives that have recently been ...

“Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Nov. 21, draws on recent archaeological finds to assemble nearly 100 artworks from the ...

Right off the elevator, you’ll be able to explore the monumentality and naturalism of Mayan art from Campeche, Chiapas, Copán and El Petén. On view is a relief in NOMA’s permanent collection ...