It is discovered by Guatemalan and Slovak archaeologists through the Uaxactún Regional Archaeological Project (PARU).

Benedict Kim Over the past 50 years, vestiges of religious rituals have turned up in hundreds of caves throughout the land of the ancient Maya, stretching from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula down through ...

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like Chicomuseltec and Choltí, have disappeared or are close to extinction, others, ...

The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.

Bleuze and Franco hypothesize that the rituals were conducted to appease the Mayan rain god Chaac, a way of ushering in the warm seasons and blessing the community’s crops. The researchers ...

Hundreds of human bones found in an underground cave in Guatemala suggest a chilling human sacrifice took place there. Cueva de Sangre, or the 'Blood Cave', is located underneath the ...

These cultural practices point toward the increasing Teotihuacan ... on again “probably speaks to the complicated feelings (the Maya) had about Teotihuacan,” said co-author Andrew Scherer ...