Archaeologist have found a Maya complex in northern Guatamala that included astronomical observatories, pyramids, and complex ...

Xibalba was known as “The Place of Fright,” home ... She returned to past studies on the Maya’s relationship to caves and read art history books. In one of them, she saw photographs of Maya vases.

Manuel Martinez/WBEZ Share A Mayan artifact is set to return to Mexico after being held by a Chicago family for nearly 40 years, the National Museum of Mexican Art announced Friday. The artifact ...

A Mayan artifact is set to return to Mexico after being held by a Chicago family for nearly 40 years, the National Museum of Mexican Art announced Friday. The artifact is a limestone frieze that ...

Over the course of four thousand years, the Mayans created art, medicine, pyramids ... Unlike Greek mythos, where underworld deities hardly tortured anyone, the Mayan underworld Xibalba aimed to ...

There are hundreds of caves in Belize that served as portals to what the Maya called Xibalba—home to ancient death gods, rituals, and extraordinary relics left behind. Accessible only by kayak ...

A clear sky during a drought was a sign for priests to pick their next victim and paint them in the same colour to sacrifice to the rain deity, Chaak, believed to live in Xibalba – the Maya ...

Mayan Warrior is a collaborative project bringing a fully functional “art” car to the Playa at Burning man. That vehicle is built with the sole function of providing a mobile performance stage ...

the great Mayan mythological text, one of the most important stories features two brothers bouncing a ball. Playful but noisy, this activity disturbs the tenants below, the lords of Xibalba ...

Right off the elevator, you’ll be able to explore the monumentality and naturalism of Mayan art from Campeche, Chiapas, Copán and El Petén. On view is a relief in NOMA’s permanent collection ...

The word is derived from the Mayan language, whose people believed that they were sacred spaces, a way to access the underworld. “They call it Xibalba,” explains Roberto Rojo, a biologist and ...

Ya’axche means “Ceiba” in the Mayan language, and the Ceiba tree is considered the tree of life in Mayan culture. The therapists at Chablé Maroma have learned about ancestral Mayan medicine ...