The women’s faces were paired with skulls, with stitches across their faces, while bright flowers in their hair belied the ...

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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 ...

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“This is a story of empire – how important kingdoms reached ... as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one probably ...

Two professors at California State University at Los Angeles—archaeologist James Brady and art historian Manuel ... At one time, during the Aztec Empire, the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers including scholars from Brown University have unearthed a buried ...

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