If you stand on the shore of a briny lagoon near the mouth of Belize’s Monkey River, you won’t see many signs that ancient industry once flourished here. Today, all that’s left are dozens of submerged ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The long-lost Maya ruins of Tipan Chen Uitz in Belize are only beginning to give up their secrets ...
Archaeologists have found more than a dozen stone knives in an ancient Maya city near a sacrificial altar. Researchers made the find in the pre-Hispanic settlement of Kulubá, in the southern Mexican ...
To view the multimedia version of this release, click here. An unprecedented collaboration of archeologists, Maya villagers and Guatemalan authorities has resulted in the recovery of a magnificent ...
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new study claims that Altar Q, made by the Maya in the eighth century A.D., may convey a deeper ...
Two 8th-century Maya stone monuments were unveiled Thursday, September 2, in the Metropolitan Museum's Great Hall. The massive statues,known as stelae, will remain on view at the museum's iconic ...
Lithic Technology, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 47-72 (26 pages) Researchers studying the Colonial period in the Maya lowland area recently have used ethnohistorical and archaeological ...