Esteemed archaelogist Don Patterson spoke to Mexico News Daily about his storied career excavating some of Mexico's greatest ...

A new DNA study of ancient remains from Copán, Honduras, reveals deep links between the ancient Maya and modern-day ...

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

Trade with Teotihuacan brought wealth to Tikal, but the Maya city seems to have attracted too much attention from its more powerful neighbor. A carved stone unearthed in Tikal in the 1960s ...

Choked by rainforest and crowded with fallen leaves, palms, and chunks of stone ... one of the carvings depicted a ruler holding up the head of a Maya deity—the exact god represented in the ...

Details about ancient Maya rulers are also featured on ... remove the muck covering the L-shaped slab that was carved to fit the piece of stone. Restoration included the injection of lime mortar ...

On the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula once stood the great Mayan city of Cobá. Recently this massive stone slab covered in 123 carved glyphs, each one providing more details about the mysterious ...

Hidden in the lush jungle, the trio stumbled upon a sculpture of a woman carved into stone. “Went mushroom ... and that it depicts Maya Devi, mother of Siddhartha Gautama—the Buddha.

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 ...