The works in the Kimbell Art Museum’s exhibition on Maya art are well over 1,000 years old, but the curators can’t help but refer to some in modern terms. Take the “Eccentric” flint scepter depicting ...

As a young girl, Dicey Taylor grew weary of art. She is now a scholar in the subject. On trips through western Europe, her parents dragged her to every historic building, museum and art gallery along ...

A 2017 article in The Economist announced, “Pioneers of gender equality, the Aztecs sacrificed women as well as men,” referring to a tower of skulls discovered in 2015 in present-day Mexico City. The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

“Deities," says Yale professor Oswaldo Chinchilla, "were part of Maya life. There was no separation between what we would call the natural and supernatural worlds.” Chinchilla co-curated "Lives of the ...

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“Lives of the Gods: Divinity and Maya Art,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, explores how people give material shape to their religious beliefs. When it came to ...