We know this because cacao has been found in Mayan pottery in Guatemala. Mayan chocolate would be mixed with water, honey, ...

In the Maya area, the production and distribution of ceramics, especially prestige ceramics including polychrome and fine ware pottery, relate to broader transformations in Maya society from the ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people.

Pottery unearthed at the site appears to indicate it was inhabited between 600 and 800 AD, a period known as Late Classic. Archaeologists have named the site Ocomtún (Mayan for stone column).

Picture Worlds at the Michael C. Carlos Museum looks at pottery from three ancient cultures: Greek, Maya and Moche.

Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery,” at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through Dec. 15, is a visually handsome work of meticulous scholarship that attempts to bridge some of the greatest divisions that ...

The materials they found contrasted with those from other nearby underwater sites, which had imported pottery, obsidian, and ...