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 ...

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 ...

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

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).

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 ...

STUART: Well, this stone is of a certain kind that the ancient Maya carved for their ball courts for these ceremonial ball games. And we have similar examples from other places.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...