Archaeologists unearthed a rare sculpture of a powerful Mayan god near the path of a large-scale rail project in southeastern Mexico, officials say. The controversial Maya Train project — which will ...

An illustration of K’awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA The ancient Maya ...

The Tren Maya is one of those rare trains that's hard to love. It's an upwards of $20 billion project meant to take tourists into the heart of the Mexican rainforest where important, hard-to-reach ...

Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App On “The Nectar of the Mayan Gods,” Pati is in the magic town of Maní to learn about something sacred to the Mayans - bees and ...

A Mayan corn god's head has been unearthed by archaeologists in Mexico who found it at the bottom of a pond that was regarded by the ancients as symbolizing the entrance to the underworld. The large, ...

Experts discovered a rare sculpture of the ancient Maya god K’awiil, near the path of construction for a large-scale rail project in Mexico. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

(The Conversation) — The ancient Maya believed that everything in the universe, from the natural world to everyday experiences, was part of a single, powerful spiritual force. They were not ...