A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious ... the faint outlines of a person wearing a feathered headdress on each panel and traces of bright red, black and ...

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

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

Deipnosophistae is a work by Athenaeus, written around 200 CE, about well-read people philosophizing at the dinner table and enjoying good food and drink. The title is a combination of two words: ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright ... As they investigated, they discovered this altar, which still bears the faint outlines ...