A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

Temple VI lays claim to the most extensive hieroglyphics in the Mayan world ... a professor in the department of art and art history at the University of Texas in Austin, responds: "Vertical." ...

Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one probably an ...

And around the Artnet News (virtual) water cooler, we couldn’t help but notice a striking similarity between two of the deaths and one of art history’s most famous paintings. (If you haven’t ...

S.A. HISTORY: San Antonio’s German-style shooting ... “The building blends Art Deco and Mayan Revival designs,” said Maria Watson Pfeiffer. “My opinion is that the ‘numbers’ are ...