From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, including piercing, body painting, scarification, and tattooing.

Mexican officials criticized YouTuber MrBeast’s video on ancient Maya temples, saying it distorted information and showed activities that did not happen. Screenshot from MrBeast's YouTube ...

Bleuze detailed the team's analysis of the Cueva de Sangre bones and explained why they believe the cave was the site of an ancient Maya sacrifice two millennia ago. Related: Mysterious Tikal ...

Bleuze detailed the team's analysis of the Cueva de Sangre bones and explained why they believe the cave was the site of an ancient Maya sacrifice two millennia ago. Related: Mysterious Tikal ...

A Sherlock Holmes-style investigation has revealed the ancient method for the stunning pigment known as Maya blue — and it's different from a previous method uncovered nearly 20 years ago by the ...

A pair of chert points found alongside human skeletons in a cave in Belize may represent the first known tattooing needles ever discovered from a site linked to the ancient Maya civilization.

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious ... Some of the remains may have belonged to Maya individuals, Houston said, “but the tomb finds suggest close contact ...

then you might’ve seen plenty of ancient ball courts. The Maya would gather at these courts to play a game called “pitz” and it was kind of like soccer and basketball combined. Players would pass ...

Five oddly expressive clay figurines, made on the edge of the Maya world about 2,400 years ago, were probably used as puppets in public rituals to commemorate mythical or real events.

This ancient civilisation that stretched across present ... with rituals such as bloodletting and human sacrifice dedicating deities in the Maya pantheon. They also played a ceremonial ball game, pitz ...

Photo from Xavier Sicart Chavarría via INAH Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s ...