The other, unearthed in 1915, is on display in Guatemala's National Museum of Archaeology and has long been considered one of that museum's greatest treasures. "The newly discovered altar is a ...

Archaeologists and forensic experts in Guatemala have made a grisly discovery among the ruins of an ancient Mayan city called Cancuen. In explorations during the summer, they found as many as 50 ...

FLORES, Guatemala -- A six-month pursuit of looters of Maya antiquities in Guatemala led to the recovery of a 600-pound, carved-stone altar taken from the ancient site of Cancuen in the remote area of ...

Important new stone monuments covered with historical texts dating from a period just before the collapse of the classic Maya civilization have been unearthed by archaeologists from Vanderbilt ...

Researchers in Guatemala have found evidence of a 1,200-year-old massacre in an ancient city called Cancuén, the capital of one of the richest kingdoms of Maya civilization. The discovery, deep in the ...

To view the multimedia version of this release, click here. An unprecedented collaboration of archeologists, Maya villagers and Guatemalan authorities has resulted in the recovery of a magnificent ...

A magnificent stone panel unearthed from a royal ball court in the late-Maya capital of Cancuen shows that the Pasion River kingdom was thriving even as other Maya capitals were disintegrating in the ...

The latest story coming out of the jungle of Guatemala, of plunder and violence in the illicit traffic of Maya antiquities, has an all-too- familiar plot line -- except for the ending. Two years ago, ...

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