Mayan language experts have decoded the name of a previously unknown Maya queen on a stone inscription discovered last year.

Ix Ch'ak Ch'een joins a distinguished roster of known Maya queens including Yohl Ik'nal of Palenque, who ruled in the late 6th century, and Lady K'abel of El Peru-Waka', who held the title of kaloomte ...

Archaeologists from the United States and Guatemala made an interesting discovery while on a dig in the northern Guatemalan department of Petén. The researchers came across a piece of carved stone ...

Anthropologist Stephen D. Houston has been tapped as the lecturer of the 72nd edition of the A.W. Mellon lecture series. Stephen D. Houston of Brown University will deliver the 72nd A. W. Mellon ...

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND—Researchers from the Idiap Research Institute of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the College of Humanities are working with ...

On a limestone monument dubbed Foundation Rock, archaeologists have identified a powerful and extremely rare Maya queen who ...

A 1,600-year-old Maya stone tablet describing the rule of an ancient king has been unearthed in the ruins of a temple in Guatemala. The broken tablet, or stela, depicts the king's head, adorned with a ...

During a conference on August 12, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that workers from the Ministry of Culture’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) had found a ...

Carved blocks uncovered at La Corona show scenes of Mayan life and record a political history of the city. (David Stuart) A newly discovered Mayan text reveals the "end date" for the Mayan calendar, ...

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