Rather than rendering an authentic physical likeness, portraits of leaders can trumpet their strategic prowess and titanic authority. A limestone stela created in 702 by an unknown Mayan artist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By deciphering hieroglyphic inscriptions on centuries-old rocks, researchers have identified the name of a previously unknown Maya ...

The great cities of the Maya lowlands dominated the Early Classical period, as we take a look at the latest instalment of our history series.

Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis, festooned with ...