Belize may not be the first country to come to mind when you think of famous Mayan archaeological wonders. Sites like Ch ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

Discovering Maya cities used to involve bushwhacking through the jungle, schlepping gear and sidestepping snakes. And over ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...

Tikal, one of the most powerful Maya city-states, became a rival in this network. Previous discoveries — such as the famous ...

While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — ...

A family altar in the Maya city of Tikal offers a glimpse into ... a nose bar and spool-shaped ear jewelry (picture a fancy ancient version of modern earlobe plugs). Proyecto Arqueológico del ...

Hampshire, UK - Butser Ancient Farm, a pioneering site in experimental archaeology and education, has unveiled its latest reconstruction: a remarkable Stone Age building known as Wyke Down , based ...

I feel like my early history education was basically like "a bunch of tribes who ate buffalo and occasionally scratched things on rocks here, Aztecs here, Maya here, Inka there, where did they go ...

Rare Stone Age building brought back to life using cutting-edge archaeological research and ancient techniques “To see a building like Wyke Down take shape before our eyes has been nothing short of ...