But she and Rossilli were detained again Sunday when they were found with 166 Mayan artifacts in their ... 90% of the 166 artifacts — mostly stone carvings — found in the couple’s vehicle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jolluck, 49, was arrested on November 11 at Guatemala City’s La Aurora International Airport when she attempted to leave the country with two pieces of Mayan stone carvings. After the arrest, a court ...

archaeologists ensure that the stories carved in stone continue to speak to future generations. The newly uncovered hieroglyphic panel at Cobá is just one piece of a much larger picture of Mayan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A huge carved stone thought to be an ancient scoreboard for a ball game called Pelota was found by experts at the ruins of an ancient Mayan city Chichén Itzá in Mexico. Scientists think the ...

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 ...

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 ...