A 1,300-year-old Mayan altar at Copan reveals new interpretations suggesting that its carved hands conceal four dates from the calendar.

A new exhibit exploring the ancient Mayan civilization has opened at the Hebei Museum in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, showcasing hundreds of artifacts from the Classic Period (around 250-1000 AD).

One of the stelae mentioning Ix Ch’ak Ch’een INAH / Octavio Esparza Archaeologists in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula have decoded Maya hieroglyphs to identify the name of a sixth-century queen: Ix Ch’ak ...

Last year, a series of ancient hieroglyphs were discovered in the jungle of Mexico. Now, they have been decoded, revealing the identity of a previously unknown Mayan ruler. INAH Ancient hieroglyphics ...

Women played key political roles in Maya civilization throughout the 6th and 7th centuries C.E. Archaeologists at the ruins of Cobá, 70 miles from Chichen Itza, have just named another one of those ...

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 ...

On a Tuesday morning in September 2023 in a medical clinic just outside of Tijuana, Mexico, Rick Perry, the former Republican presidential candidate, energy secretary and Texas governor, lay down on a ...

The ancient Mayans were masters of time, keepers of good calendars. And now we have one of their timekeepers' workrooms to prove it. In a striking find, archaeologists in Guatemala report the ...

There follows a summary of discoveries in archeology and paleontology since last recorded in TIME (Dec. 31, Jan. 7). United States. The greatest sensation of the year in human fossils came to light on ...

I preach to my kids to expand their horizons and do things outside of their comfort zones, yet I have been happy behind a computer keyboard tapping out my thoughts and telling others’ stories for ...