The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of the Maya king who founded the city of Caracol in what is now Belize.

A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coatimundi were found with the ...

Found in the ancient city of Caracol, the tomb contained a rare jade mask, ceramics, and jewelry often linked to the Maya ...

Te K'ab Chaak was a wealthy warrior king who rose to power in 331 C.E. His burial is the first royal tomb found in the ...

Two University of Houston archaeologists have made scientific history with the discovery of a Mayan king's tomb in Belize.

Te K’ab Chaak was the first dynastic leader of the Maya region of Caracol. Even after the king died, his dynasty last another ...

A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak—Caracol’s first known ruler. Buried with elaborate ...

"Maya rulers seemed to have real angst about the past world and think that it could interfere with their authority, so they would try to tweak it, or even erase it altogether.

An ancient ruler embodied by the Mayan god of corn in the underworld can be seen on an astonishingly well-preserved stone disk recently extracted from the Temple of the Sun in Mexico.

Mexico uncovers 'elite' Mayan palace used to home ancient rulers The discovery marks the first-ever finding of such a structure used for residential purposes in the Mayan site, ...

Those rulers went on to achieve peak power roughly between the years 550 and 800. Royal art and writing at Tamarindito and other Classic Maya sites misleadingly suggest that kings wielded absolute ...