Jade Skirt: The gods and spirits are so important to my people, the Maya. The king is our head priest and he can speak directly to the gods. With the help of other high-ranking priests ...

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 ...

These and other questions involving the Maya people’s relation to their gods, their sacred city, and their extraordinarily accurate calendar were what the two archaeologists were investigating.

The Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza, also known as El Castillo, stands as a testament to the Mayan civilization's advanced ...

In 1968, while archeologists excavated a tomb within the temple, they found a large, full-rounded sculpted head of Kinich Ahau, the sun god. Weighing almost ten pounds, it was the largest Maya ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds ... practiced a complex religion based on a host of gods, a unique calendar, and ceremonies that featured a ball ...

Experts say Maya kings had to be careful when maintaining ... Rather than hand over Tikal to his ally God That Hammers the Sky, he held a peace summit with Tikal’s new king.

The decline of the Maya civilization began some 1,100 year ago when millions of Indians working on the contruction of tall pyramidal temples and palaces learned that their kings weren't gods ...

An image reconstructed from fragments of a mural dating to about 100 B.C. at the Maya city of San Bartolo in Guatemala depicts the god Wak Tok.(Digital image by Heather Hurst) Close study of the ...