A detail from a Late Classic vase from the Peten region depicts a Maya queen (above right) with red lines painted below her eyes and a female attendant (above left) with a light patch around her mouth ...
A ruler wearing a nasal prosthesis looms over a captive in a Late Classic panel from a temple at Palenque in Chiapas. The captive wears paper earrings, which were rough and uncomfortable by design. In ...