Archaeologists in southeastern Mexico recently unearthed an ancient crypt dating back more than 1,000 years and made a ...

Fredrik Backman’s 'My Friends' offers a poignant, unforgettable goodbye to Beartown. A moving tribute to friendship, closure, ...

AnuZigguratUruk #WarkaIraq #WhiteTemple Explore Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, where one of the cradles of civilization and ...

“In Maya ritual, body parts are just as valuable as the whole body.” Getting from traumatic injury to rain god ritual, though, was more than just conjecture.

Germán Vogel/Getty Images Hundreds of Bone Fragments Linked to Ancient Mayan Blood Sacrifices Scientists believe the people were sacrificed to appease the Mayan rain god, Chaac.

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...

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.

Maya Henry has bravely returned to social media, one week after ex-fiancé Liam Payne 's funeral. The One Direction star was laid to rest last week in a moving ceremony after his death aged 31 ...

Maya Henry, the ex-fiancée of Liam Payne, has spoken out for the first time following his tragic death. The couple started dating in 2019 and got engaged in August 2020, but they split up in May ...

Well, Camazotz is actually a bat god from Mayan mythology. Camazotz means “death bat” in the K’iche language, and the god has associations with death and the “domain of Twilight.” ...

Maya is a princess of the Teca kingdom which is based on Aztec civilization. Her ally Chimi, a god character, is from the jungle inspired by Mayan culture.

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 ...