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Made by the same person who created the animated movie, The Book of Life, Maya and the Three is an animated Netflix series about a demigod Princess. More specifically, Maya is a warrior princess on a ...
Xaibe pyramid surrounded by tropical forest, Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Mayan civilisation, 6th-10th century. Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images. In the Caribbean jungles of Quintana Roo, two Mayan ...
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the tomb of an ancient Mayan warrior queen packed with jade jewels and other artifacts that shed light on the long-vanished ...
Ritual killing was a common part of religious sacrifice in the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá. For decades, media depictions cast the victims of these acts as young women and adolescent girls. In ...
The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole and other ...
Women and gender in the ancient Maya world / Traci Ardren -- Gender and Maya farming: Chan Nòohol, Belize / Cynthia Robin -- Gender divisions of labor and lowland terrace agriculture / Linda Stephen ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site, the ...