The altar reveals the presence of powerful rulers from Teotihuacan who were there at a time when a coup ousted Tikal’s Maya ...

The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered asignificant find in Tikal, Guatemala. This altar, which was buried under the jungle floor for centuries, reveals a complex picture of Maya life during a ...

Pope Francis is expected lie in state in a zinc-lined coffin after American Cardinal Kevin Farrow presides over the ...

Tikal, one of the most powerful Maya city-states, became a rival in this network. Previous discoveries — such as the famous ...

Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

A family's vacation in Kashmir turned tragic when Bitan Adhikari was killed by terrorists in front of his family. His widow ...

Bitan Adhikari, originally from West Bengal, had settled in Florida with his family a few years ago. He returned to Kolkata ...

“Blood was the mortar of ancient Maya ritual life,” wrote groundbreaking ... ceremonial epicenter of Tikal and served as a royal burial ground. Around the Lost World, architectural and ...

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Three West Bengal residents, Bitan Adhikari, Samir Guha, and Manish Ranjan, died in a terror attack in Kashmir's Pahalgam.