"These faces, these portraits, look at us from the past. Their gaze transports us to the royal court of the ancient and ...

Stunning jade mask found inside the tomb of a mysterious Maya king. National Geographic Explorer Francisco Estrada-Belli’s discovery in Chochkitam, Guatemala, sheds new light on an ancient society.

In 2017, archaeologist Jacob Welch was conducting excavations at Ucanha, a site on the Yucatán Peninsula near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, when he came across an enormous Maya mask sculpted ...

Denver police arrested an 18-year-old man after he allegedly vandalized and destroyed several pieces of rare and historic Chinese and Mayan artwork Sunday that were part of an exhibit depicting ani… ...

The mask, which depicts the face of an unknown deity or elite person, was sculpted from the building material stucco and dates back to a period in Maya history known as the Late Preclassic (about ...

In all, 10 works were damaged, including the Chinese vase with phoenixes, a Mayan vessel shaped like a fish, and a wolf mask and headdress. The value of the objects was not disclosed.

The most startling moment in the marvelous "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," which opens today at the Legion of Honor, occurs near the end of its circuit of thematic rooms. In a gallery devoted ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have uncovered a Mayan tomb estimated to be from 350 C.E. deep in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a discovery lead researcher Francisco Estrada-Belli has described as akin ...