Mirrors were thought of as a means of peering into the world of the supernatural, they were a means of discovering what would occur in the future. Thus stated Annabeth Headrick, University of Denver ...

In Mesoamerica, the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl—the feathered serpent—embodied wisdom, creation, and fertility. Similarly, the Maya revered Kukulkan, a feathered serpent deity associated with resurrection ...

When two spelunkers investigated what they thought was trash in a cave in Mexico, they discovered more than a dozen artifacts ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...

They reflected the beliefs of the wider Maya world while also proclaiming Palenque’s own distinctive religious traditions and gods. “Maya” is a 20th-century term for the civilization that ...