Archaeologists in southeastern Mexico recently unearthed an ancient crypt dating back more than 1,000 years and made a ...

A rchaeologists have uncovered new stucco reliefs at the ancient Maya city of Dzibanché, providing fresh insights into the Kaanu'l dynasty, also known as the "Snake Kings," who ruled parts of ...

A new discovery has led historians to theorize that balls in the ancient Mayan civilization were sometimes made using the ashes of dead rulers. Candida Moss Published Aug. 20 2022 10:02PM EDT ...

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 ...

Mayan artifacts reproduced by Zacatecas-born master sculptor Manuel Palos. Every dollar you give in June is doubled until we hit $85,000! About 65% of our revenue comes from individuals like you — ...

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.

Maya royalty: an image of a ninth-century Maya ruler (a king of the city state of Machaquila in what is now Guatemala) gives some idea of what the probable conqueror of Ucanal must have looked ...

“This is a big change, because you mostly see imagery of Maya rulers who are perched up on one side and much bigger in scale than the people they’re interacting with,” Halperin says.

Archaeologists say they've discovered what could be the tomb of one of the greatest Mayan rulers, the seventh-century warrior queen Lady K'abel. IE 11 is not supported.

For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala. From the fifth century C.E. into the seventh century, scribes ...

In 250, as the Roman Empire began to fall apart in Europe, Mayan civilization was steadily gaining in power and sophistication. Over the next six centuries, the Maya built a network of cities that ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery is shedding a new light on one of history’s biggest enigmas – the collapse of central America’s ancient Maya civilisation. This new discovery – the ...