Surprisingly untouched by looters, a well-hidden burial chamber found at the archaeological site of Nakum in northeastern Guatemala may have been the tomb of a female ruler from the second or third ...

The history of the ancient Maya board game patolli gained a new twist when archaeologists discovered a game board embedded in ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have uncovered an unprecedented network of 60,000 ancient Mayan features such as palaces and elevated highways, according to an exclusive report by National Geographic. The ...

Maya wall painting fragments(San Bartolo-Xultun Regional Archaeological Project) In the ancient Maya city of San Bartolo in Guatemala’s Petén rain forest, researchers have recovered pieces of a ...

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of pre-Hispanic ceramic vases that contain traces of nicotine, possibly from liquid infusion. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Tikal Report No. 37: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AT TIKAL, GUATEMALA; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Appendices; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments ...

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THE first part of the fourth, volume of the Memoirs of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, is devoted to an account of exploration by. Mr. Teobert Maler in the valley of the Upper Usumatsintla, or ...

THE Peabody Museum of American Archæology and Ethnology of Harvard has already rendered signal service by publishing the results of Mr. Teobert Maler's journeys and researches among the ruins of ...

In the Petén rainforest of Guatemala, the ancient Maya city of Naachtun continues to offer surprises. The latest, and one of ...

Nicaragua: The site of Leon Viejo, recognized by the Bureau as having World Heritage values, but not inscribed as yet. The Secretariat informed that heavy rains and storms have caused serious flooding ...