The case of Stephanie Allison Jolluck began Thursday at the Guatemala City airport when inspectors were reportedly tipped off by the weight of her luggage and found two large Maya stone carvings ...

The scoreboard was used during a football-like game called 'pelota' or 'Maya Ballgame', where the balls contained the ashes of their dead rulers. The carved, circular stone was found in the Mayan ...

"It is noteworthy, unlike other Mayan sites where representations are generic, in Palenque many of the features we see in [the] mural painting or stone carvings are faithful reflections of ...

Archaeologists at Chichén Itzá unearthed a heavy stone with carvings of two ball players and complete Mayan hieroglyphic text, photos show. Photo from Raquel Moss via Unsplash Carefully digging ...

Her luggage was quite heavy, triggering an inspection. Inside, officials found two large Maya stone carvings, dating to 600 and 900 C.E. Jolluck claimed to have purchased them at a market in ...

These edifices had long suggested to researchers that Maya rulers wielded absolute power. So did hieroglyphics carved on stone slabs, which described kings’ exploits. Science News sponsorship ...

One game, known as pok-a-tok, had rules similar to soccer or basketball, with the goal of trying to get the ball through a carved stone ring or hoop mounted on a wall. But with Maya ball games ...

Perhaps best known for their towering pyramid temples and more than 40 grand cities carved out of stone – such as Tikal, Uaxactún and Copán – the Maya were also obsessive astronomers ...

Just as Tikal dominated the Maya lowlands for centuries ... sliced into a pyramid and saw a wallet-size patch of exposed carved stone on the wall. “I could see some squiggles on the rock ...

The burial lay beneath about 5 feet (1.5 meters) of large stone blocks typically used for ... ninth century when the remains were burned, carved Maya records described the deeds of a new ruler ...