A 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture has been discovered in the erstwhile Mayan city of Tikal in ...

When most people think of ancient Maya civilization, they imagine godlike kings building towering pyramids and reveling in bloody human sacrifice. But commoners also played a significant role in the ...

Getty ImagesA view of the Pyramid of the Magician in Yucatan, Mexico. Hundreds of Mayan artifacts have been found underwater in a Guatemalan lake, according to the Daily Mail. Among the trove of ...

Archaeologists Unearth an Intricately Carved Circular Stone Used as a Scorecard for a Ball Game 1200 Years Ago Researchers ...

The Tuxtla statuette, discovered in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1902, now resides in the National Museum of Natural History. Donald E. Hurlbert / Dept. of Anthropology, NMNH In 1902, an Indigenous man ...

Masks of rain god, snakes, and intricate geometric shapes loom over the entrance to this Maya building, today called the House of the Governor. The city of Uxmal, and the Puuc people who lived there ...

A woman purchased a nearly 2,000-year-old Mayan vase at a Maryland thrift store — but didn't realize what she had until she saw a similar one in a museum Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer ...

At the height of the Mayan empire 1,400 years ago, the city of Tikal in modern-day Guatemala was a bustling metropolis the size of London during the Middle Ages. But when the Spanish conquistadors ...

Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis, festooned ...