A team of Polish archaeologists diving in a possibly sacred lake in northern Guatemala has recovered hundreds of Mayan artifacts, including ceremonial bowls and obsidian blades that may have been ...

A monumental discovery in the world of archaeology has unearthed the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of Caracol, an ...

University of Houston professors Arlen and Diane Chase have been excavating the same site in Belize for nearly 40 years.

Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified what appear to be tools used by the ancient Maya for tattooing, according to a report inNature. The discovery includes a pair of chert points ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...

Presented by Dr. James Stemp: Both the functional and ideological aspects of obsidian blades, as objects used to let blood and as symbols of bloodletting, were fundamental to ancient Maya religious ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that Maya tools like obsidian blades, bone needles and even stingray tails found in ritual contexts were used for bloodletting rituals. The problem is, it's hard ...

Many of the artifacts found in the lake were small pieces of ceramic, with a few dating to the Mayan proto-classic period — between 150 B.C. and A.D. 250 — while most dated to the Mayan post ...