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Every little piece we can obtain from the excavations is fundamental, like a piece of the larger puzzle we are putting ...

Washington - The earliest known Mayan calendar has been found in an ancient house in Guatemala and it offers no hint that the world's end is imminent, researchers said on Thursday. Rather, the painted ...

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Scientists studied the genetic makeup of seven Maya individuals—including one who was the victim of human sacrifice.

Archaeologists working in the dense jungles of northern Guatemala have uncovered the remains of an ancient Maya city that ...

The Chol Q’ij or Tzolk’in Maya calendar ceremony is held in the highlands of Guatemala every 260 days. Pictured above are calendar keepers preparing the altar for the ceremonial fire. Credit: Isabel ...

Now, scholars report, they’ve found something even more impressive: the oldest known Maya calendar. The find, published in Science Advances by University of Texas professor David Stuart and ...

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The glyph found on the mural fragments for “7 Deer,” one of the calendar’s 260 named days, consisted of the ancient Maya writing for the number seven over the outline of a deer’s head.