Maya society was very complex. There were hundreds of cities. Different classes including: commoners, a middle class, nobles and the king and his royal court. Maya people lived in different cities ...

They were big chocolate eaters. The transformation of cacao bean to chocolate was discovered by the Olmec people more than ...

But when the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Central America in 1517, the Mayan people had left Tikal for the surrounding jungle, and its limestone towers were already in ruins. At this point ...

Masks from the tombs at Calakmul were meant to ease the passage of the Snake elite into the next world. Royal visages made of green jade, more valuable than gold to the ancient Maya, evoked the ...

The results of facial reconstruction were compared with the malachite mask, as well as with sculptures of Maya women, which are rendered in a style noted for its individualized expressions.

Archaeologists working in Central America have discovered a series of fishing-catching canals made by pre-Columbian Mayan ...