The mystery of Maya blue has fascinated researchers since the discovery of artifacts still displaying this hue after ...

In a recent study published in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica, Dr. Dean Arnold and his colleagues, Joseph Ball, Laure ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — The earthy smoke of Mexican copal incense wafts around the entrance of the Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. It's a way to keep bad vibes away and invite good ones for Día ...

Several years ago he came across the Field’s little bowl. It held a hardened mass of copal incense, a tree sap that gives off a sweet scent when burned.

Combining that with other evidence, they concluded that Maya blue was produced on-site during rituals by burning a mixture of copal incense, palygorskite and probably the leaves of the indigo plant.

Dean Arnold of Wheaton College in Illinois, who led the study, suggested in 2005 that the Mayans heated and fused indigo leaves and clay by burning copal – a sticky tree resin they used as incense.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Day of the Dead in Mexico smells like cempasuchil flowers and copal incense. It has a sweet taste. Sounds and colors abound. There are photos, candles and music all over.

The lightning bolts — along with cones of copal incense and obsidian knives — were found during scuba-diving expeditions in one of the twin lakes of the extinct Nevado de Toluca volcano, at ...

The Day of the Dead in Mexico smells like cempasuchil flowers and copal incense. It has a sweet taste. Sounds and colors abound. There are photos, candles and music all over.

Latino Arts for Humanity has hosted annual Day of the Dead event for years As she used the copal to cleanse the altars of negative energy, the party was really getting going along the paved roads ...