Current issues are available on the Chicago Journals website: Read the latest issue. RES is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular ...

MEXICO CITY – The end of the current era in the Mayan long-count calendar is approaching. With dancing, incense and rituals designed to thank the gods, the Mayans performed the "New Fire" ceremony ...

RIVIERA MAYA, MEXICO--(Marketwire - Oct 9, 2012) - As an era of Mayan myth nears its completion, Esencia Estate's eco-friendly Aroma Spa is celebrating the end of the Mayan calendar with a new, ...

A ritual cave has been discovered beneath the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza. Archaeologists found more than 150 objects relating to ritual practices in the cave, which they said had been untouched ...

Archaeologists studying the ruins of an Ancient Mayan city of Yaxnohcah, on the Yucatán Peninsula in southeastern Mexico, found evidence of at least four psychedelic or medicinal plants that were used ...