In 700-800 C.E., the ancient Maya would ascend a stairway to a temple at the pyramid’s top to offer gifts and sacrifices to the kingdom’s patron deity. Sculptural monuments lining the front of the ...

This flat stone monument, which stands on a pyramid at the Maya site of Piedras Negras in northwestern Guatemala, shows Lady K'atun-Ajaw, Namaan-Ajaw seated cross-legged on a throne. Her three ...

E ven before the 9-foot-tall bronze monument to author Maya Angelou was lifted into place and bolted onto its stone base, Berkeley artist Lava Thomas seemed finally able to exhale. After a more ...

A German tourist was escorted from an archaeological complex when he climbed and attempted to evade security at a Mayan ...

The Maya and Toltec vision of the world and the universe is revealed in their stone monuments and artistic works. The fusion of Mayan construction techniques with new elements from central Mexico make ...

In this feature, you can actually "read" a passage of glyphs carved into an ancient Maya stela, or dedicatory stone monument. You can both read the ancient Maya (transcribed using the Roman ...

Thanks to the relatively recent decipherment of Maya script, we can now read the images and the writing on their monuments as the names and histories of actual rulers. In the course of the ...

A tourist in Mexico is facing charges after he climbed the stairs of one of the New Seven Wonders of the World as onlookers ...