The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

A riveting show at the Metropolitan Museum surveys the complicated art of the ancient Maya, in which beauty and brutality are surreally entangled. By Holland Cotter Beautiful is complicated.

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a ... as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one probably ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, from ...