Ancient Maya art comprises the visual arts of the Maya civilization, an eastern and south-eastern Mesoamerican culture made up of a great number of small...

and classic examples of Maya architecture. The temples like the ones at Palenque, Tikal, and Uxmal represent a zenith of Maya art and architecture. Through...

Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas. The civilization is also noted for its art,...

Mayan or Maya mythology is part in of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the...

Maya Ray Thurman Hawke (born July 8, 1998) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of Hollywood actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman...

Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican...

Spanish conquest in the 17th century. Human sacrifice is depicted in Classic Maya art, is mentioned in Classic period glyph texts and has been verified archaeologically...

the Kʼicheʼ language, the Twins have also been identified in the art of the Classic Mayas (200–900 AD). The twins are often portrayed as complementary forces...

Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University...

also sometimes referred to as "art naïf," "primitivism," 'traditional art," "Maya art," and "costumbrismo". Differing from many Western paintings, Guatemalan...

Maya stelae (singular stela) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. They consist of tall, sculpted stone shafts...

Maya Angelou (/ˈændʒəloʊ/ AN-jə-loh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist...

Autodesk Maya, commonly shortened to just Maya (/ˈmaɪə/; MY-ə), is a 3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, originally...

Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam MBE (Tamil: மாதங்கி 'மாயா' அருள்பிரகாசம்; born 18 July 1975), known by her stage name M.I.A. (Tamil: எம்.ஐ.ஏ.; an initialism...

known as මහාමායා දේවී (Mahāmāyā Dēvi). In Buddhist literature and art, Queen Maya is portrayed as a beautiful fecund woman in the prime of life. Her...

have traditionally created textiles in Maya society, and textiles were a significant form of ancient Maya art and religious beliefs. They were considered...

The Maya (/ˈmaɪə/) are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. The ancient Maya civilization was formed by members of this group...

Maya ceramics are ceramics produced in the Pre-Columbian Maya culture of Mesoamerica. The vessels used different colors, sizes, and had varied purposes...

Spanish 16th-century texts and is depicted in the art of the Classic Period (200–900 AD). The Maya played instruments such as trumpets, flutes, whistles...

Maya (/ˈmɑːjə/; Devanagari: माया, IAST: māyā), literally "illusion" or "magic", has multiple meanings in Indian philosophies depending on the context....

Maya Deren (born Eleonora Derenkovskaya, Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська; May 12 [O.S. April 29] 1917 – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born (then...

Maya Chitram Art Institute, located in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India, has been a non-profit educational organization since 1981. From the institute's...

Maya Devir (Hebrew: מאיה דביר; born June 1989) and Yehuda Devir (יהודה דביר; born October 1988) are married Israeli comic artists who illustrate their...

Maya codices (sg.: codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The...

In archaeology, the classic Maya collapse is the destabilization of Classic Maya civilization and the violent collapse and abandonment of many southern...

María de la Concepción "Maya" Widmaier-Picasso (5 September 1935 – 20 December 2022), later known as Maya Ruiz-Picasso, was the eldest daughter of Spanish...

The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca...

Maya and the Three (Spanish title: Maya y los tres) is an animated fantasy television miniseries created by Jorge R. Gutiérrez and produced by Tangent...

Maya Martine Els Weug (born 1 June 2004) is a Dutch-Belgian-Spanish racing driver, who currently competes in F1 Academy for Prema Racing, having previously...

Maya cities were the centres of population of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. They served the specialised roles of administration,...