Changing all that, the researchers announce the discovery of two “burin spalls” – or stone flakes – from a site called Actun ...

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

The Maya civilization thrived at Tikal and in other cities until it declined after about A.D. 900, for reasons that are much debated. Before that, Teotihuacan had also declined, from about the ...

Belize may not be the first country to come to mind when you think of famous Mayan archaeological wonders. Sites like Ch ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

Some of the works on display address the role of birds in the Aztec and Maya civilizations, where the quetzal bird symbolized power and freedom, and was associated with the gods. "There is a great ...

In Guatemala’s Tikal National Park, which was once the center of the Maya civilization, archaeologists discovered a fifth-century C.E. altar from the Teotihuacan culture. The Teotihuacan people lived ...

(Image Courtesy of Brown University) A buried ancient altar at the center of the Maya city of Tikal points to the tensions between the Maya and their neighbors in the late 300s C.E. According to a new ...

Scholars suggest it was an artisan from the far-off Teotihuacan City, over 600 miles away, who crafted this altar, as its design does not reflect the artistry of the Maya civilization.

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern ... "Everyone knows what happened to the Aztec civilization after the Spanish arrived," Houston said.

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“Everyone knows what happened to the Aztec civilization after the Spanish arrived,” Houston concluded. “Our findings show evidence that that’s a tale as old as time. These powers of central Mexico ...