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

Mexico’s culture secretary said her agency was weighing legal action against a production company for video that seemed to ...

Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, two small stone tools dated between 250 and 900 AD that could be the first ...

Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified what appear to be tools used by the ancient Maya for tattooing, according ...

but Mayan tattooing tools had never been found. James Stemp at Keene State College in New Hampshire and his team analysed two fragments of stone discovered in the late 1990s in a cave in Belize.

Changing all that, the researchers announce the discovery of two “burin spalls” – or stone flakes ... Kab were likely puncturing tools used by the ancient Maya for the purposes of ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about their daily lives, religions, and habits, many "disappearances" remain ...