[Photos: See the Maya Ballplayers Carved into the Stone Panels] You may like Mysterious Tikal altar that wasn't Maya after all includes at least 4 skeletons — and 1 was a child Ancient Maya ...

He is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and an expert in Mayan culture. And he's helping decipher the hieroglyphs carved into the stone. David, welcome to the show. DAVID STUART ...

Born in the depths of Central American tropical jungles, the Mayan civilization achieved great accomplishments in areas such ...

His stone sarcophagus lid, carved with rich cosmological imagery, is now one of the best-known pieces of Maya art. The site sits within a thick jungle, where waterfalls and greenery add to the ...

The stone disk was found at Chichén Itzá ... Two players standing with a ball are carved into the center, and text is carved around the center. It was found during an archaeological did in ...

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 ...

Descendants of the Maya have been trying to revive the ball ... at Toniná is well preserved According to Mr Yadeun, stone carvings at key locations inside the ballcourt offer clues that back ...

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 in ...

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 ...

At first, archaeologists thought the statuette’s markings were Mayan; southern Mexico ... would simply give the age of the stone, not of the carvings. The two scholars held that the writing ...