Tourists and archaeologists alike travel to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico to view the region's famous Mayan ruins. In fact, the ancient sites are so well-known that there's a tourism district named ...

When I asked my husband where he wanted to go for his milestone birthday, he responded, "You know, I've always wanted to see Mayan ruins." To make his dream a reality, we made plans to visit the ...

A Maya pyramid beautifully decorated with a rare polychrome-painted stucco frieze was unearthed in July 2013 at the site of Holmul, a Classic Maya city in northeastern Peten region of Guatemala. The ...

Archaeologists say a beautiful, monumental Maya carving, hidden inside a pyramid in Guatemala, shows how one 6th-century superpower asserted its influence over its rival. The stucco frieze was ...

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That’s the translation of Och Chan Yopaat, the name of an ancient Maya ruler whose likeness dominates a remarkable carving discovered last month in a Guatemala pyramid. The carving, which depicts the ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Maya pyramid have uncovered royal remains that appear to have been burnt in an apparent "act of desecration", and Newsweek spoke to the lead researcher about the ...