The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.

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

Archaeologists have uncovered a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in northern Guatemala, revealing a treasure trove of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

Escape the heat this summer and immerse yourself in the art of the ancient Americas at the New ... explore the monumentality and naturalism of Mayan art from Campeche, Chiapas, Copán and El ...

The Ancient Mayans of Mesoamerica built some of the ... red pyramids would have stood tall above bustling cities full of art, ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, from ...

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery ... "Based on the Spanish ethnohistoric accounts and Classic Maya artwork, it appears both adult men and women could be tattooed.

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a ... as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one probably ...