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For nearly half a century, Dr. Anabel Ford — archaeologist, research scientist, and director of UC Santa Barbara’s MesoAmerican Research Center — has dedicated her working life to questioning ...

Throne 1, KK'in Lakam Chahk (785) Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has unveiled a new major ...

A riveting show at the Metropolitan Museum surveys the complicated art of the ancient Maya, in which beauty and brutality are surreally entangled. By Holland Cotter Beautiful is complicated. Gorgeous ...

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Sixteen hundred years ago, the inhabitants of the powerful ancient Maya kingdom of Tikal looked to the west and saw red. On a hilltop, in their direct line of sight, stood the Temple of the Night Sun.

Found in the ancient city of Caracol, the tomb contained a rare jade mask, ceramics, and jewelry often linked to the Maya ruling class. Caana, which means "sky palace" in Mayan, is the largest ...

A team of archaeologists excavating the ancient Maya city of Caracol discovered the tomb of its first ruler, which contained pottery, jadeite jewelry and a rare death mask In C.E. 331, Te K’ab Chaak ...