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 ...

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 discovery shows the cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and Teotihuacan's elite between 300 and 500 A.D., ...

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 ...

An ancient altar has been unearthed that is believed to have been used to sacrifice children in an abandoned 'city of the gods ... interaction between the Maya of Tikal and the elite of ...

Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one probably an ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Maya maize god (made around 1,300 years ago). Stone statue, found in Honduras The sound of ...