Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

It took archaeologists one and a half years to uncover the altar in a dwelling and analyse it before the announcement. “The ...

In the beginning, Beilin said it wasn’t a film project but rather an article that led to interviewing and filming locals and experts. After exposure to the Mayan culture, science and picturesque land, ...

An ancient Mayan altar in Tikal, a 2,400-year-old city in Guatemala, evidences a quasi-imperial control system before the ...

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An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park ...

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Satellites are helping scientists spot more ancient Mayan ruins than ever before, which is no small feat considering how thick the forest is in the indigenous group's ancestral lands ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...