A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its plethora of palaces, altars, shrines, and soaring temples, Tikal may be the premier Maya site. For over 1,100 years ...

Our findings show evidence that that’s a tale as old as time. These powers of central Mexico reached into the Maya world because they saw it as a place of extraordinary wealth, of special ...

Yet four years later, Landa wrote a manuscript about the Maya world called "Relation of the Things of Yucatan" (left). Together, this manuscript and the Dresden Codex proved essential in the later ...

Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Maya relief of royal blood-letting ... Sado-masochism gets, on the whole, a bad press, but around the world there are, as there always have been ...

Sado-masochism gets, on the whole, a bad press, but around the world there are ... keeps focusing on this stupefying act, but for the Maya, what would have been important was the whole scene.

Across the world, people began to identify particular ... He was found in Copán, a major Mayan city and religious centre, whose monumental ruins you can still visit today. All of the temple's ...