On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá, in the sparse shade of a tropical tree ... had acted as a sacred sundial and timekeeper for the ancient Maya on ...

Farming was at the centre of ancient Maya ... the things we Maya create. (SHOUTS) Like our incredible temples. Oh look… the scribe is writing a book. The books are sacred and reading them ...

turns that story on its head and reveals the deep connections between ritual sacrifice and the cycles of human death and ...

Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya ... for "place of the ceiba tree," Seibal had a checkered ...

This is how one of the most sacred places in Teotihuacan was modeled, an elongated duct where the traces of the ancient process ... in an area of 800 m², the Mayans entered these places to ...