Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

If some cities fell to power struggles and were abandoned then nature moved in and took the space back, resulting in overgrown ruins where once many people lived. Another theory has suggested that ...

The Mayan people’s struggle to keep their ancestral land has been described as “the fourth conquest” and like “fighting a monster”. The indigenous community has been through continuous ...

A group of scientists have discovered a buried altar in Guatemala which had remains of people left in mysterious positions so ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious ... were used in the very center of Tikal, involving people who used utterly foreign, Teotihuacan painting styles ...

The sweeping tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday target not only economic superpowers but also ...

It took archaeologists one and a half years to uncover the altar in a dwelling and analyse it before the announcement. “The remains of three children not older than four years were found on three ...

Godwin Heights eighth-graders’ first appearance at a National History Day competition led to some stellar results. And ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The Mayan people’s struggle to keep their ancestral land has been described as “the fourth conquest” and like “fighting a monster”.

The exploitation of the ancestral land the Mayan people call home has been described as a “fourth conquest” and their battle to protect it like “fighting a monster”. The indigenous community has been ...