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 ...

"These faces, these portraits, look at us from the past. Their gaze transports us to the royal court of the ancient and ...

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).

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 ...

Photographer and designer Stephanie Allison Jolluck — who was detained last week after trying to fly out of Guatemala with two stone carvings were made between 600 and 900 A.D. — has said she ...

Prosecutors in Guatemala say they have found 1,222 possible archeological artefacts at the home of an American couple accused of smuggling historical relics.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists use laser technology to uncover more Mayan ruins 03:10. Archeologists have found an ancient scoreboard used by Mayans during a ball game. The stone disk was found at Chichén Itzá, an ...