In fact, many pictures of Mayan gods and goddesses depict them as having human characteristics mixed with animal features. Kukulkan and Chichen Itza Ruins.

WASHINGTON/GUATEMALA CITY — Archaeologists at an ancient Maya ceremonial site in Guatemala have uncovered the final wall of a large Maya mural dating from 100 B.C. that shows the mythology ...

A 1,600 year old temple believed to be dedicated to the sun god of the ancient Mayan people has been found in El Zotz, Guatemala. The Temple of the Night Sun dates back to between 350 and 400 AD.

When Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009, he snapped three iPhone photos of El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to ...

When Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009, he snapped three iPhone photos of El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Mayan mural believed to be a calendar projecting events some 7,000 years into the future – thus contradicting doomsday warnings predicting the end of the ...

The Wall Street Journal. English Edition. ... Photo: Museo Amparo Collection. ... “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Nov. 21, ...

Archaeologists in northwestern Guatemala have uncovered the tomb of a Mayan king that appears to date back to 300-350 A.D. The royal tomb, the oldest of seven discovered in the ancient city of El ...

"Each Maya court reckoned that it stood at the center of the world, a place with special access to the gods," says Mary Ellen Miller, exhibit curator of "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," opening ...