For a brief period one of those city-states prevailed and became the closest thing to an empire in Maya history. It was ruled by the Snake kings of the Kaanul dynasty, which until just a few ...
Archaeologists have uncovered new stucco reliefs at the ancient Maya city of Dzibanché, providing fresh insights into the ...
The Maya worshipped family members who had died. Similar to the Shang dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households buried their dead ...