A stone carving that some scholars believe dates back more than 2,200 years and could carry major cultural significance has ...

A recently discovered carved panel in Calakmul, Campeche, depicting a probable captive, could reshape our view of the Mayan ...

The find may be traceable to an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company.

It will draw you in first by the transparent size of its stones: 1,150 carats of Colombian emeralds, and at the center, a ...

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Some people think that learning history might be useless. "It already happened, what's the point?" Yet the truth is that ...

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, including piercing, body painting, scarification, and tattooing. However ...

A carved stone unearthed in Tikal in the 1960s describes how Teotihuacan swooped in around 378 CE to oust Tikal’s king and replace him with a puppet ruler. Spanish-language sources call this ...

Choked by rainforest and crowded with fallen leaves, palms, and chunks of stone, the little-known site of Chochkitam, Guatemala, seems an unlikely place for a breathtaking archaeological find ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient stone slab with 123 hieroglyphic symbols in Mexico, revealing the founding of a town in 569 AD and details about Maya ... was carved to fit the piece of stone.