The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador for thousands of years. Emerging around ...

Its buildings exhibit classic Maya architecture. The Temple of the Frescoes, for instance, which retains faint traces of blue-green frescoes, has a vaulted roof and triangular architecture.

with their remarkable architecture and craftsmanship remaining incredible to this day. And now, researchers have found one of the most stunning examples of Mesoamerican craftsmanship in history.

Filtered through his photographs, Mesoamerican architecture showed Albers the accordionlike nature of pictorial space: It could be rendered as volumetric, flat and something in between at the same ...

The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and paper. Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of ...