Getty ImagesA view of the Pyramid of the Magician in Yucatan, Mexico. Hundreds of Mayan artifacts have been found underwater in a Guatemalan lake, according to the Daily Mail. Among the trove of ...

An ancient Maya relief sculpture that was found in a German antique shop and is suspected to have been looted from Mexico was returned to that country on 18 July, by way of the Mexican consulate ...

The archaeological site contains some of the finest-known examples of Maya architecture and art. The Maya civilization dominated what is now southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the western ...

Burning Man’s famous Mayan Warrior art car was destroyed in a fire this past April, but that’s not stopping its creators from throwing one final party. On Tuesday (July 18), the Mayan Warrior ...

Although Mayan written sources clearly document human sacrificial rituals, many details about the Mesoamerican civilization’s ceremonial victims remain unknown. Thanks to new genetic analysis ...

Dredging of the site’s Sacred Cenote in the early 20th Century identified the remains of hundreds of victims, and a full-scale stone representation of a huge tzompantli, or skull rack.

Skulls found in Guatemala ‘blood cave’ likely sacrificed to rain god in brutal Mayan ritual. Researchers say bones found scattered in Cueva de Sangre show signs of ritual dismemberment ...

But dredging of the site’s Sacred Cenote in the early 20th Century revealed the remains of hundreds of victims, and a full-scale stone representation of a huge tzompantli, or skull rack.

In 250, as the Roman Empire began to fall apart in Europe, Mayan civilization was steadily gaining in power and sophistication. Over the next six centuries, the Maya built a network of cities that ...

Archaeologists in the southern Mexican city of Palenque, Chiapas, have found a centuries-old, intricately carved Maya nose ornament made of human bone that offers insight into ancient funerary ...