Archaeologists working in the dense jungles of northern Guatemala have uncovered the remains of an ancient Maya city that ...

That’s the story told in “Maya Deren: Choreographed for ... and nuclear war became a reality. In 1945, Deren filmed another silent short, “Ritual in Transfigured Time,” the last of her ...

Archaeologists hunting for a sacred well beneath the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have accidentally discovered a trove of more than 150 ritual objects ...

"This article documents an early 9th-century ritual fire-burning event at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala and argues that it marked a public dismantling of an old regime." A carved pendant ...

An environmental DNA analysis of soil collected at an ancient Maya ball court reveals that the site was once part of a ritual. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

“The Haitian Footage: Maya Deren Unedited,” shown at Anthology Film Archives on Tuesday night, featured film from Deren’s study of dances and rituals captured during visits to ...

Such games served not just as athletic events but also religious ones that often involved ritual sacrifices. Archaeologists have now found evidence that the Maya may have blessed newly constructed ...

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.