NBC 5 and the Kimbell Art Museum invite you to experience Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, now through September 3 at the Kimbell Art Museum. This monumental and acclaimed exhibition brings ...

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 ...

The ancient Maya developed a complex religious system centered on gods, ancestors, and the passage of time. During the Classic period, Maya society was organized into independent kingdoms that shared ...

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 ...

An ancient ruler embodied by the Mayan god of corn in the underworld can be seen on an astonishingly well-preserved stone disk recently extracted from the Temple of the Sun in Mexico. The figure ...

Four Mayan books survive, only four. All the rest were burned, very conscientiously, by the pious and determined conquerors from Spain. Many were destroyed on a plaza in the Yucatan in 1549. Bishop ...

A Mayan corn god's head has been unearthed by archaeologists in Mexico who found it at the bottom of a pond that was regarded by the ancients as symbolizing the entrance to the underworld. The large, ...