Mexican archaeologists have discovered what they say is the first temple of a pre-Hispanic fertility god known as the Flayed Lord who is depicted as a skinned human corpse. The discovery is being ...

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IF anyone still has any doubts that Mad Mel Gibson is off his rocker, you might want to check out his well-made but gratuitously violent “Apocalypto” – which makes “The Passion of the Christ” look ...

It’s safe to say that only Mel Gibson could have made Apocalypto. No other director would have been able to gather enough funding to produce a film with mostly non-actors in a Mayan dialect. Yet for ...

Watching Mel Gibson’s movie Apocalypto is not for the fainthearted or squeamish. Set among the Mayans in the 16th century, the film portrays their customs of human sacrifice with unsparing realism.

Mel Gibson knows how to make a gripping piece of cinema. His action adventure movie Apocalypto set in Mexico during the early 1500s is wildly thrilling. What's more his portrayal of the Maya ...