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.

Update: The carved emerald just sold for $6.2 million at auction, over double the original estimate. The original story on ...

For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and ...

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

A Roman sarcophagus depicting a drinking contest between Hercules and Dionysus was unearthed in Israel’s Caesarea, revealing ...

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Archaeologists discovered three Maya cities in Guatemala, revealing ancestral statues, astronomical complexes, pyramids, and advanced water systems, offering rare insights into Preclassic and Classic ...

carved shell pendants, and pottery fragments, the burins were placed in storage for almost thirty years. Among the ancient Maya, stone burins were often used to drill hard materials such as bone ...

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 ...