The Maya civilization had one of the most intricate religious systems in the ancient world. From powerful gods like the maize god and the rain god Chaac to the complex calendar cycles and ancestor ...

Ancestor worship was important and similar to the Shang dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households buried their dead underneath the floors ...

Many ancient Mayan city ruins across Central America are ... much about the way the Maya understood subjects like astronomy, religion, language, and medicine, they contain only a tiny fraction ...