The “old goddess” is a paradoxical character in Maya mythology. She is the grandmother who raised the infant gods, but in most accounts, she hated them, and finally tried to kill them. Despite her ...

The Mayan mythology gods and goddesses are filled with rich history, rituals, and mysteries — some of which we still uncover today — and some of which you can see in sculpture form when you visit the ...

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 surrounding ...

“Lives of the Gods: Divinity and Maya Art,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, explores how people give material shape to their religious beliefs. When it came to ...

WASHINGTON — Disappointed at not finding the stone monuments he sought, a tired researcher sat down in the jungle shade and accidentally discovered the oldest known intact wall painting of Maya ...

Filmmaker Anand Gandhi has previously wowed audiences with Ship of Theseus (2013) and Tumbbad (2018). Now, he returns with his most ambitious venture yet, Maya, a sprawling sci-fi fantasy universe ...