This early history of the Maya peoples in Mesoamerica details the art and architecture of the Preclassic period, more than ...
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Archaeologists excavated a chultun mass grave in Mexico, but it was DNA analysis that found the twin boys who echo the Maya myth of the Hero Twins
A hidden chamber beneath the famed ruins of Chichen Itza has yielded one of the most haunting and illuminating archaeological discoveries in decades. In 1967, builders unearthed an underground cistern ...
The Maya used "sign language" on an altar around 1,300 years ago, and these signs may represent important dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar, a new study claims. "This is the oldest text where, to ...
A well-known Maya stone carving known as Altar Q, located at the site of Copán in Honduras, may use hand signs to represent key dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar, a new study claims. When you ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...
Archaeologists excavate ancient structures at Los Abuelos, a newly discovered Mayan city near Uaxactun in northern Guatemala. Credit: Clemens Schmillen / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists have uncovered the ...
On a wall in my mother’s home, beneath a glassed frame, there hangs a memorial certificate which, along with a Purple Heart, was posthumously awarded to the uncle I never met. On it is the inscription ...
DOS PILAS, GUATEMALA—In the 1990s, archaeologists made a grisly discovery when they entered a cave beneath the Maya site of Dos Pilas in Petén. The team encountered hundreds of fragmented human bones ...
Scientists believe the people were sacrificed to appease the Mayan rain god, Chaac. Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of ...
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Mysterious Tikal altar that wasn't Maya after all includes at least 4 skeletons — and 1 was a child
Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered an altar that holds the burial of a child and adult in the Maya city of Tikal, a finding that could help researchers discern the nature of the city's ...
Making the rounds this past week were comments by a Mexican archeologist regarding the discovery of a Mayan altar at which child sacrifices were performed. As reported by CBS News, the altar, found in ...
Robby Soave delivers radar about an ancient altar found in Guatemala that was apparently used for "child sacrifices," according to archaeologists.
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