Born in the depths of Central American tropical jungles, the Mayan civilization achieved great accomplishments in areas such ...

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 ...

Details about ancient Maya rulers are also featured on ... remove the muck covering the L-shaped slab that was carved to fit the piece of stone. Restoration included the injection of lime mortar ...

On the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula once stood the great Mayan city of Cobá. Recently this massive stone slab covered in 123 carved glyphs, each one providing more details about the mysterious ...

A preliminary epigraphic study determined that the stone carving contained information about the foundation of a Maya town called Keh Witz Nal, or “Deer Mountain,” on May 12, 569 C.E. It also ...

Hidden in the lush jungle, the trio stumbled upon a sculpture of a woman carved into stone. “Went mushroom ... and that it depicts Maya Devi, mother of Siddhartha Gautama—the Buddha.

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 burial lay beneath about 5 feet (1.5 meters) of large stone blocks typically used for ... ninth century when the remains were burned, carved Maya records described the deeds of a new ruler ...