The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported the discovery of three Maya frescoes during rescue work at ...

The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

This diversity of human-modified landscapes across the Maya world is a key discovery, says Golden. “The Maya are often viewed as a cautionary tale about climate change — this great civilization ...

a discovery that could help shed new light on the ancient Maya civilisation. The Gran Acuifero Maya, (GAM) a project dedicated to the study and preservation of the subterranean waters of the ...

Later Mayanists used Förstemann's discoveries to convert Maya dates to Gregorian dates—for instance, the Maya believed the world was created on August 13, 3114 B.C. Britain's Alfred Maudslay ...

And then, all of a sudden, we were in the middle of the most exciting part of Maya history.” The story of the discovery of the Kaanul, or Snakes, and their effort to create an empire begins in ...

A Late Classic (A.D. 600–900) Maya vase from the Peten region of Guatemala portrays a king and queen (above, center) preparing to perform a ceremonial dance. Both royal figures wear feather ...

The discoveries of the deposits of houses B and E revealed “the majority exploitation of fish, one of the least studied animal groups in Mayan zooarchaeology”. The information was released in ...

With modern day Maya still living where their ancestors once did, these discoveries help them to recover and reconnect to the parts of their history that were so brutally destroyed by the invading ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá, in the sparse shade of a tropical tree, a voice ricochets wildly up the mouth of a well. “¡Lo vi! ¡Lo vi!” ...