A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

A large necropolis discovered in an ancient oasis provides a missing piece to the archaeological puzzle of the Iron Age, officials said. Screengrab from the United Arab Emirates' Department of Culture ...

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

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

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 ...

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Little by little researchers are unraveling the mysteries of the Maya culture of Central America ... revealing a turbulent period of time of the ancient Maya city of Tikal. An altar was found ...

the centre of Mayan civilisation, shedding new light on the interactions between the two ancient cultures. The discovery, announced by Guatemala’s Culture and Sports Ministry, was made within ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex ...

An enigmatic altar found in an ancient Mayan city contains bodies — and ... unveiled a mass grave of soldiers from nearly 2,000 years ago, revealing rare but gruesome evidence of clashes between ...