Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

A few presidents ago, I was quite upset about U.S. involvement in a war. I read in the local paper that the president had ...

Five oddly expressive clay figurines, made on the edge of the Maya world about 2,400 years ago, were probably used as puppets in public rituals to commemorate mythical or real events.

In the Perth Festival exhibitions brochure, artistic director Anna Reece noted that the city is “uniquely positioned in relation to Southeast Asia considering proximity and shared time zones”. ...

Radiocarbon dating indicates the figurines were buried around 400 B.C.E., a period known as the Middle Preclassic when nearby Mayan culture was rapidly changing and becoming more hierarchical.

A female attendant (above, far left) holds a mask that the king will wear during the dance ... when the Maya population grew dramatically, and royal courts, with their flamboyant ritual displays ...

An old temple priest, Pandit Somnath, was found slumped over his wooden desk inside the centuries-old Shiva temple, a single cryptic entry in his ancient ledger: “The peacocks dance thrice ...

On the other hand, Varela Scherrer, a specialist in Mayan culture, specified that after the excavation of the ritual deposits, a procedure of “sifting with water and floating” was carried out ...