Lords of Creation explores the development of divine kings and their roles in the emergence of a complex urban society 2,000 years ago in the Maya region (southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras). In divine kingships, ruling elites utilized notions of cosmic order to sustain the structure of their earthly domains. Divine kingship is found among ancient civilizations throughout the world in Asia and Southeast Asia, Egypt and West Africa, Mesopotamia, and Europe, but it remains an unexplored process in the ancient Americas.