Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers has unearthed a buried altar that could unlock the secrets of a ...

The artistic style used for the altar captures the figure and face of a man clad in a feathered headdress, surrounded by rich ...

Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

An ancient Mayan altar in Tikal, a 2,400-year-old city in Guatemala, evidences a quasi-imperial control system before the ...

The film explores the history and culture of the ancient Maya civilization, tracing its origins to around 1500 BC in southern Mexico and Guatemala. It highlights the Maya's advancements in ...

Yet, while that civilization fell, its grand structures and cultural artifacts have remained centuries later. While it’s true that an ancient Mayan calendar shocked thousands into thinking the world ...

The cave also helped Jaime develop a theory to answer a nagging question in archeology. That is, why ancient Mayan civilization began to decline after flourishing for hundreds of years.

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient Mesoamerican ... the collapse of the Maya civilization?) ...

reaching all the way back to those used by the ancient Maya civilization. Over time, this approach has melded with the style and technique brought by the Spanish conquistadors, along with those ...

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While the Mayans did leave a good deal of writing behind, there are still many questions and mysteries about the ancient Mayan civilization that we can only guess at now. How the common people lived ...