The Cleveland Museum of Art has re-entered the controversial world of antiquities collecting by purchasing an ancient Roman marble portrait head and a glazed ceramic Mayan vessel. Both pieces ...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House in Barnsdall Art Park (completed in 1921) and the Mayan theater downtown (1927) are early examples of particular kind of Latin American influence in L.A.

This 8-foot-tall carved limestone monument, or stela, depicts the Mayan king K'inich B'ahlam II, or Sun-Faced Jaguar, carrying out a ceremony in Waka, in A.D. 692.

Throne 1, KK'in Lakam Chahk (785) Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has unveiled a new major ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – A group of Guatemalan musicians is on a mission to breathe life into a pre-Columbian language and heritage through a thoroughly modern genre: hip-hop. Calling themselves… ...

Mayan art from the Classic Period (around 200 to 950 CE), depicts dogs being fattened for both ritual sacrifice and consumption, and Spanish colonizers’ accounts record those activities as well.

Teasing the audience with a clue about how millions of people think the world will come to an end on Dec. 21, Thomas Germano, professor of art and art history at Farmingdale State College, State ...

An ancient Mayan artifact will be returned to Mexico after decades in the hands of private collectors. Representatives from the National Institute of Anthropology and History unveiled the artifact ...