The most startling moment in the marvelous "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," which opens today at the Legion of Honor, occurs near the end of its circuit of thematic rooms.

Archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University carefully uncovers art and writings left by the Maya some 1,200 years ago. The art and other symbols on the walls may have been records kept by a ...

The viral image does not show an ancient Mayan Batman sculpture, but rather a modern piece of art created in 2014 and depicting an artist's interpretation of what a Batman sculpture could have ...

Xok, a Maya artist, name still tentative, active 8th century). Naranjo or vicinity, northern Petén, Guatemala, 755–80 A.D. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Anonymous gift ...

Two University of Houston archaeologists have made scientific history with the discovery of a Mayan king's tomb in Belize. A UH team led by husband and wife scientists Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z.

Decode Stela 3 By Mark Van Stone Posted 04.08.08 NOVA To many of us, Maya hieroglyphs may look like just so many pretty pictures or symbols. But they actually say something, of course, as ...

On July 1, an exhibition featuring William M. Frej’s photographs of ancient Maya ruins opened at Santa Fe’s Peyton Wright Gallery. The show encompasses 33 black-and-white photographs taken ...

In 250, as the Roman Empire began to fall apart in Europe, Mayan civilization was steadily gaining in power and sophistication. Over the next six centuries, the Maya built a network of cities that ...