The anthropologist claims that the rulers carved on the 1,300-year-old Altar Q are not just striking royal portraits. The way ...

Ancient Maya kings may have already told us how to tackle our water crisis, a new study has found. The Maya civilization dates back almost 4,000 years and spanned what is now Belize, Guatemala, ...

Four Mayan books survive, only four. All the rest were burned, very conscientiously, by the pious and determined conquerors from Spain. Many were destroyed on a plaza in the Yucatan in 1549. Bishop ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site, the ...

This photo released by the Guatemalan government shows two anthropomorphic sculptures that "represent an ancestral couple." - Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and Sports Archaeologists have discovered ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters Life!) - Archeologists in Guatemala have discovered a Mayan king's tomb packed with a well-preserved hoard of carvings, ceramics and children's bones that cast fresh light on ...

Popol vuh : the definitive edition of the Mayan book of the dawn of life and the glories of gods and kings / translated by Dennis Tedlock, with commentary based on the ancient knowledge of the modern ...

Archeologist objects; story goes viral. Jan. 5, 2012 — -- The textbooks will tell you that the Mayan people thrived in Central America from about 250 to 900 A.D., building magnificent temples in ...

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