"These faces, these portraits, look at us from the past. Their gaze transports us to the royal court of the ancient and ...

These newly discovered figurines dating back to 7500 B.C. are believed to be linked to the burial practices of an ancient ...

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

A 1,000-year-old skull, above, offers evidence of subterranean sacrificial rituals. ... Caves, she learned, were a recurring motif in ancient Maya art and literature: They were painted on the sides of ...

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.

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.

Rising to power in the wake of the Classic Maya collapse, Chichén Itzá was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual life ...

The suspected tomb and remains of a great Maya warrior queen have been discovered in Guatemala, archaeologists say.. Uncovered at the site of the ancient city of El Perú-Waka', the tomb has been ...

The Mayan Warrior team is rising from the ashes of its destroyed art car, announcing Thursday (Oct. 19), that they’re building a new car to debut at Burning Man 2024.

Archaeologists working in the ruins of Palenque, an ancient city in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, have found a centuries-old, intricately carved Maya nose ornament made of human bone.

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 ...

Over 1,000 years ago, multiple Mayan men were decapitated at a temple in modern-day Mexico. Now, archaeologists have unearthed their skulls, shedding light on the culture and health of the Mayans ...