Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis, festooned with ...

Ancient Maya would paint unlucky people blue and throw them down a sacred well as human sacrifices. Now scientists have solved the mystery of how to make the famous blue pigment by analyzing traces on ...

Stunning Maya wall paintings have been discovered during the renovation of a house in Guatemala. Found on the walls of a house in Chajul, experts say that the paintings are from the colonial period ...