Ek Chuaj, the Maya God of Cacao, the Mayan Moon Goddess Ix Chel, and the Maya God El are just a few of the Mayan animal gods often depicted as jaguars. 10. Ixtab, Mayan Goddess of Suicide ...

Ancient Maya culture was centered on interconnected city-states that developed great networks of trade and agriculture and some of the most advanced architectural wonders in human history. Today, ...

A Yale archaeologist has co-curated an exhibition, "Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art," running at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It features more than 100 rarely seen Maya masterpieces ...

In the 9th century the Mayan population plummeted, for reasons that are still unclear, and much of Mayan culture was destroyed by the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s.