Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, 7th–8th century, center, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York Times The Maya concept of the universe was built on ...

Throne 1, KK'in Lakam Chahk (785) Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of ... the sacred.” Maya artists lived in what are now Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.

is working to restore an ancient Maya temple façade that was looted from the jungle in the 1960s and once offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The project is being carried out in public ...

In 250, as the Roman Empire began to fall apart in Europe, Mayan civilization was steadily gaining in power and sophistication. Over the next six centuries, the Maya built a network of cities that ...

In the distance, Mexico, Belize and Guatemala converge ... that place permeates Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, the Metropolitan Museum’s rare exhibition of carvings and sculptures ...

47"x 21" Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Mexican Art The limestone frieze dates between 500 - 900 CE, during the Classic Period of Maya civilization in Mexico. It depicts a figure wearing ...

Manuel Martinez/WBEZ Share A Mayan artifact is set to return to Mexico after being held by a Chicago family for nearly 40 years, the National Museum of Mexican Art announced Friday. The artifact ...

The Metropolitan Museum is not a building ... Escobedo’s assignment was to design not an entrance but the museum’s back end. Escobedo is one of Mexico’s most visible architects but an ...