A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

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

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

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed ... of anthropology and archaeology at Brown. “The Maya regularly buried buildings and rebuilt on top of them,” he said in ...

A new discovery tells of a turbulent episode in the Mayan city of Tikal according to the researchers who unearthed an ancient ...

A group of scientists have discovered a buried altar in Guatemala which had remains of people left in mysterious positions so ...

A large necropolis discovered in an ancient oasis provides a missing piece to the archaeological puzzle of the Iron Age, officials said. Screengrab from the United Arab Emirates' Department of Culture ...

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