Archaeologists from the United States and Guatemala made an interesting discovery while on a dig in the northern Guatemalan department of Petén. The researchers came across a piece of carved stone ...

Ix Ch'ak Ch'een reigned over the city of Cobá in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Historians didn't know her name before they ...

For more than 120 years, the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data, has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its ...

Mayan language experts have decoded the name of a previously unknown Maya queen on a stone inscription discovered last year.

The history of Cobá—a Maya epicenter buried in the jungle—are coming to light, including the name of the woman who ruled over ...

Anthropologist Stephen D. Houston has been tapped as the lecturer of the 72nd edition of the A.W. Mellon lecture series. Stephen D. Houston of Brown University will deliver the 72nd A. W. Mellon ...

A 1,600-year-old Mayan stone tablet describing the rule of an ancient king has been unearthed in the ruins of a temple in Guatemala. The broken tablet, or stela, depicts the king's head, adorned with ...

Ancient hieroglyphic texts reveal Mayans made major discovery in math and astronomy, a researcher suggests. This study blends the study of Mayan hieroglyphics (epigraphy), archaeology and astronomy to ...

GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA (JULY 22, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (SOUNDBITE) (English) CO-DIRECTOR OF LA CORONA ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, MARCELO CANUTO, SAYING: “Excavations have discovered two ...

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A stela uncovered in Guatemala comemorates a king who ruled the region over 1,600 years ago. A 1,600-year-old Mayan stone tablet describing the rule of an ancient king has been unearthed in the ruins ...