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Five oddly expressive clay figurines, made on the edge of the Maya world about 2,400 years ago, were probably used as puppets in public rituals to commemorate mythical or real events. “They would have ...

Scientists believe the people were sacrificed to appease the Mayan rain god, Chaac. Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of ...

It's well-known that the ancient Maya had their own version of ball games, which were played with a rubber ball on stone courts. Such games served not just as athletic events but also religious ones ...

Archaeologists discovered, through environmental DNA technology, that ceremonial rituals of the ancient Mayan civilization at the Yaxnohcah ruins (Yucatán Peninsula) were conducted with hallucinogens.

In the 1940s, large-scale excavations in Guatemala City began uncovered scores of clay figurines. They were an eclectic bunch. Facial features varied, hairstyles ranged from buns to curls to braids, ...

Skulls found at an ancient Mayan site have revealed evidence of a gruesome ritual from more than a thousand years ago. Four months ago, archaeologists with the Mexican National Institute of ...

An ancient canoe found deep underwater inside a Mexican sinkhole near the ruined Mayan city of Chichén Itzá has been revealed to have been surrounded by bones from humans and other animals. The canoe ...

The canoe was discovered in an underwater cave in 2021. National Institute of Anthropology and History A well-preserved Maya canoe found in a Mexican freshwater cave may have been placed there as part ...