The ancient Maya used a vivid, remarkably durable blue paint to cover their palace walls, codices, pottery and maybe even the bodies of human sacrifices who were thrown to their deaths down sacred ...

Escape the heat this summer and immerse yourself in the art of the ancient Americas at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Right off the elevator, you’ll be able to explore the monumentality and naturalism ...

Inside a ruined pyramid in the Guatemalan jungle, archeologists have unearthed the oldest known Maya painting, a brightly colored 30-foot-long mural depicting the Maya creation myth and the coronation ...

Inside a ruined pyramid in the Guatemalan jungle, archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known Maya painting, a brightly colored 30-foot-long mural depicting the Maya creation myth and the ...

Students at Longmont’s Flagstaff Academy are currently able to play Indiana Jones and crawl into a recreation of a Mayan temple thanks to a new installation, part of the school’s Discover Art program.

Per a Mayan myth, when the world began, in 3114 B.C., it took the gods three tries to get humans right. The first attempt, using mud, was a wash; wood didn’t make the cut, either. Finally, corn hit ...

Many artists have animated famous paintings before, but the husband-and-wife artistic team Rob and Nick Carter have taken it to a whole other level. They created a a three-hour animated version of an ...

Maya vases in time and space-- From boys to men : Ik' princes in foreign courts -- Placing the patron : Tayel Chan K'ihnich in context -- The artist's oeuvre : the vases of Mo?-n Buluch Laj -- The ...

The ancient Maya used a vivid, remarkably durable blue paint to cover their palace walls, codices, pottery and maybe even the bodies of human sacrifices who were thrown to their deaths down sacred ...