For a brief period one of those city-states prevailed and became the closest thing to an empire in Maya history. It was ruled by the Snake kings of the Kaanul dynasty, which until just a few ...

A ubiquitous Mesoamerican deity occupying space in both the Aztec and Mayan pantheons, the feathered serpent was known by two ...

This foot is held angrily below his open jaws. These would not be recognizable as a snake's jaws by a person unfamiliar with Maya art, which advanced over a course of conventionalization that took ...

No direct reference to Yuknoom Ch'een's parentage survives, but if his claim to the serpent throne was legitimate, he would need to be a direct descendent of Dzibanche's ruling house. The political ...

Jade Skirt: The gods and spirits are so important to my people, the Maya. The king is our head ... And there is Kukulkan, the fearsome feathered serpent god. Which reminds me… Kukulkan demands ...

The hotel's central path twists onwards like Kukulkan, the mythical Mayan serpent god, through these jungled, dense masses of ...

The post includes various clips of James looking calm, cool and collected while getting his new ink, as this isn't his first time in a tattoo chair. Among his other work is a serpent tattoo by ...

National Geographic Explorer Albert Lin travels to the jungles of Central America in search of the lost capital of the Maya Snake Kings ...

The post includes various clips of James looking calm, cool and collected while getting his new ink, as this isn't his first time in a tattoo chair. Among his other work is a serpent tattoo by Vanessa ...