K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history. For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near ...

Archaeologists at Chichén Itzá unearthed a heavy stone with carvings of two ball players and complete Mayan hieroglyphic text, photos show. Photo from Raquel Moss via Unsplash Carefully digging ...

The case of Stephanie Allison Jolluck began Thursday at the Guatemala City airport when inspectors were reportedly tipped off by the weight of her luggage and found two large Maya stone carvings ...

"It is noteworthy, unlike other Mayan sites where representations are generic, in Palenque many of the features we see in [the] mural painting or stone carvings are faithful reflections of ...

The scoreboard was used during a football-like game called 'pelota' or 'Maya Ballgame', where the balls contained the ashes of their dead rulers. The carved, circular stone was found in the Mayan ...

One game, known as pok-a-tok, had rules similar to soccer or basketball, with the goal of trying to get the ball through a carved stone ring or hoop mounted on a wall. But with Maya ball games ...

But she and Rossilli were detained again Sunday when they were found with 166 Mayan artifacts in their ... 90% of the 166 artifacts — mostly stone carvings — found in the couple’s vehicle ...

Jolluck, 49, was arrested on November 11 at Guatemala City’s La Aurora International Airport when she attempted to leave the country with two pieces of Mayan stone carvings. After the arrest, a court ...

The stone disk was found at Chichén Itzá ... Two players standing with a ball are carved into the center, and text is carved around the center. It was found during an archaeological did in ...

At first, archaeologists thought the statuette’s markings were Mayan; southern Mexico ... would simply give the age of the stone, not of the carvings. The two scholars held that the writing ...