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 ...

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 ...

Inhabitants of the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá are well-known for their practice of ritual human sacrifice. The most prevalent notion in the popular imagination is that of young Maya women being ...

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 ...

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Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during the ...

It may be hard to imagine now, but human sacrifice was an important part of ancient Mayan culture. And for a long time, the sacrifice victims were thought to be mostly young women. A new study ...