Deep in the Guatemalan jungle lies the remains of an ancient city forgotten about for nearly 3,000 years, experts reveal.

The annual festival, which takes place Memorial Day weekend, May 24-26, will feature roughly 76 vendors, including local ...

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

the Maya believed their people were created through maize, or corn, as outlined in the creation story Popol Vuh. According to ...

Belize is home to hundreds of caverns where Mayan priests once held rituals to petition the gods for rain or a successful ... Later, I learned how to grind nixtamalized corn on a stone metate ...

In Mayan mythology, the maize god was decapitated at ... Early farmers in Mexico grew chilli to make their maize taste better Corn had a mythical status in Mexico, being an ancient and nutritious ...

Some of the best evidence for this comes from the behavior of two of the most powerful beings of the Maya world: The first is a creator god whose name is still spoken by millions of people every ...

The monumental head of Hun Hunapu, the god of corn, depicts one of the most important deities of the Maya pantheon. This fragment comes from the architectural decorations of the ruins of Copán ...

Nohoch Mul, the tallest Maya pyramid on the Yucatan ... to “a group of tutelary gods who founded Cobá, such as Bolón Tz’akab Ajaw, ‘Lord of countless generations,’ in charge of the foundations of the ...

It is thought that the sacrifices were associated with the agricultural cycles of corn, an important staple ... given the importance of twins in Mayan mythology and Classic Maya art.

The presence of twins and close relatives could be linked to rituals that involved twin figures from Mayan mythology ... heavy diets — probably maize (corn) — were typical of ancient Maya.