An illustration of K'awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA The ancient Maya ...

Experts discovered a rare sculpture of the ancient Maya god K’awiil, near the path of construction for a large-scale rail project in Mexico. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

(THE CONVERSATION) K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history. For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala. From the ...

NBC 5 and the Kimbell Art Museum invite you to experience Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, now through September 3 at the Kimbell Art Museum. This monumental and acclaimed exhibition brings ...

Archaeologists unearthed a rare sculpture of a powerful Mayan god near the path of a large-scale rail project in southeastern Mexico, officials say. The controversial Maya Train project — which will ...

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The ancient Maya believed that everything in the universe, from the natural world to everyday experiences, was part of a single, powerful spiritual force. They were not polytheists who worshipped ...