A 1,300-year-old Mayan altar at Copan reveals new interpretations suggesting that its carved hands conceal four dates from the calendar.

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 ...

Last year, a series of ancient hieroglyphs were discovered in the jungle of Mexico. Now, they have been decoded, revealing the identity of a previously unknown Mayan ruler. INAH Ancient hieroglyphics ...

On the night of June 24, A.D. 726, a Maya official named Ajpach’ Waal reached the pinnacle of his career. On that day, he was granted an audience with the thirteenth king of Copán, known to scholars ...