The city of Copán is home to some of the most artistically complex stelas created by ancient Maya people. These objects bear intricate high- and low-relief carvings that span their entire surfaces.

Standing more than three meters high, the figure on the stele wears a net skirt ... hold a grotesque figure and a blood-letter (an instrument that allowed one to draw one’s own blood for sacrifice to ...

In this feature, you can actually "read" a passage of glyphs carved into an ancient Maya stela, or dedicatory stone monument. You can both read the ancient Maya (transcribed using the Roman ...

He also prepared papier-mâché casts of several carvings from which accurate drawings were later ... their dedication dates. The Maya would set up a series of stelae in front of a single temple ...

with the construction of the new Mayan train. Calakmu covers an area of 27 square miles and boasts majestic structures, like ...

An outline of a penis that appeared in a Maya the Bee episode was the result of "a very bad joke", the makers of the children's animated series have said. Belgian company Studio 100 said the image ...

Farming was at the centre of ancient Maya life. But these people are also remembered for other amazing creations, like their spectacular buildings and beautiful objects made from jade, a rare and ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá, in the sparse shade of a tropical tree, a voice ricochets wildly up the mouth of a well. “¡Lo vi! ¡Lo vi!” ...

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