Nicanora Valdez's bowls are whimsical stories in clay and paint, but she's carrying on a serious tradition passed through ...

One of the oldest civilizations in Mesoamerica, the Mokaya were skilled artists, farmers, traders and even sportsmen.

Even after 2,000 years of exposure to the intense heat and humidity of the Yucatán jungles, the temples, statues, and murals ...

Researchers uncovered a second ancient method the Maya used to craft their long-lasting blue pigment, revealing new cultural ...

Maya blue, discovered by modern researchers in 1931, is not an easy pigment to make. Echoing the color of an azure sky, the ...

When Alex founded East Fork Pottery in Asheville, North Carolina, back in 2009, he took the same view. He saw ceramics as a canvas. It came easily, like it was woven into his DNA – because it was.

Photo by the National Institute of Anthropology and History Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de ...