Just three days after she was caught at a Guatemalan airport trying to smuggle two 1,000-year-old Mayan relics out of the country, officials say, a U.S. woman has been caught again, this time ...

The carved, circular stone was found in the Mayan Chichén Itzá archaeological site in the Yucatan peninsula by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history. For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near ...

These carvings marked the stone as a monument to an important Mayan ball game event, experts said. A digital rendering of the stone marker. Photo from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology ...

A decorative ring made from carved stone is embedded in the wall of a ballcourt in the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza. Credit: Kåre Thor Olsen/CC BY-SA 3.0 ...

Perhaps best known for their towering pyramid temples and more than 40 grand cities carved out of stone – such as Tikal, Uaxactún and Copán – the Maya were also obsessive astronomers ...

Inside, officials found two large Maya stone carvings, dating to 600 and 900 C.E. Jolluck claimed to have purchased them at a market in Antigua, where she lives.

Unique 2,300-Year-Old Human-Sized Intricately Carved Mayan Mask Discovered, Made of Lime-Based Plaster Archaeologists have found several stunning artifacts associated with the Mayan culture. These ...

Looking for ceramics to help date the site, he walked into a looter’s trench that sliced into a pyramid and saw a wallet-size patch of exposed carved stone on the wall. “I could see some ...

Vaulted stone structures give insight into Maya political structures Laura Gilabert-Sansalvador did not have Mesoamerican politics on her mind in 2013 when she began studying stone palaces at La ...

The burial lay beneath about 5 feet (1.5 meters) of large stone blocks typically used for facade construction — an unexpected arrangement for people of royal descent, said lead study author Dr ...

Officials in Guatemala say they've arrested a U.S. woman who was caught trying to smuggle two 1,000-year-old Mayan relics out of the country ... the two stone carvings are known as Mayan “axes ...