Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Guatemala’s Cueva de Sangre, translated as “blood cave,” isn’t just a clever name. It’s an apropos description of the cave ...

In the 1990s, archaeologists made a grisly discovery when they entered a cave beneath the Maya site of Dos Pilas in Petén.

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...

It would be too easy and too inaccurate to write these places off as strange anomalies — one-off quirks in a city filled with ...

A man lost his life after saving two people from a burning hot air balloon during the First Balloon Festival in Zacatecas, ...

A blood cave in Guatemala has found to be home to scattered remains of human sacrifices rituals. With hundreds of humans ...

Mayan discoveries have fascinated archaeologists for decades. In the 1990s, when human remains were found in a Guatemala cave ...

Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of more ...