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Ancient Bones Reveal What Smaller Maya Communities Actually Ate
Stable isotope analysis of bones from non-elite burials across smaller Maya sites in Guatemala's southeastern Peten…
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Yatzil: A Young Woman Found Deep in a Mexican Cenote
Archaeology
Yatzil: A Young Woman Found Deep in a Mexican Cenote
Technical divers descending into Cenote Yaakun near Playa del Carmen, Mexico, passed through a hydrogen sulphide…
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Minanbé: Intact Maya City Found in Mexico’s Jungle
Archaeology
Minanbé: Intact Maya City Found in Mexico’s Jungle
Deep in Mexico's Calakmul jungle, a Mexican-Slovenian team has uncovered Minanbé, an intact Maya city untouched…
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Oldest Maya Long Count Date Found: How a Crumbling Stone Rewrites Maya History
Archaeology
Oldest Maya Long Count Date Found: How a Crumbling Stone Rewrites Maya History
A crumbling stone monument at El Palmar in Campeche, Mexico, has yielded the oldest known Long…
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How the Maya Thrived in Wetlands After Their Cities Fell
Archaeology
How the Maya Thrived in Wetlands After Their Cities Fell
A new PNAS study reveals that a Maya community at the Birds of Paradise wetland complex…
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Sacred Plants and Ritual Drugs in Ancient Maya Culture
Archaeology
Sacred Plants and Ritual Drugs in Ancient Maya Culture
The ancient Maya embedded psychoactive plants including tobacco, morning glory seeds, Datura, and fermented balché into…
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Teotihuacan Tombs and 47 Vessels Found Near Tula
Archaeology
Teotihuacan Tombs and 47 Vessels Found Near Tula
Salvage excavations for a Mexican train project have uncovered Teotihuacan-era shaft tombs near Tula, including a…
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Lost Maya King Named in Giant Stone Panel
Archaeology
Lost Maya King Named in Giant Stone Panel
A giant L-shaped panel of 123 Maya hieroglyphs carved into bedrock at Cobá, Mexico, has revealed…
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A Maya Ritual Altar Hidden in Plain Sight in Rural Yucatan
Archaeology
A Maya Ritual Altar Hidden in Plain Sight in Rural Yucatan
INAH archaeologists embedded in Mexico's Tren Maya railway project have uncovered a 1,500-year-old Maya ritual altar…
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The Maya Were Trading Live Dogs Across Vast Distances
Archaeology
The Maya Were Trading Live Dogs Across Vast Distances
A new study from the University of Calgary reveals the Classic Maya transported selectively bred, specially…
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Unearthing the Ancient Maya Ball Court of Poxila
Archaeology
Unearthing the Ancient Maya Ball Court of Poxila
Archaeologists in Yucatan, Mexico, have uncovered an incredibly rare ancient Maya ball court near Poxila, revealing…
Andrew Whitman5 min →
The Hidden Jade Cavity: What an Ancient Molar Reveals About Maya Medicine
Archaeology
The Hidden Jade Cavity: What an Ancient Molar Reveals About Maya Medicine
A recent study reveals the first evidence of a functional jade gemstone filling in an ancient…
Andrew Whitman5 min →
Shadows on the Plain: Uncovering a Massive Ancient Sanctuary for the Chosen Few
Archaeology
Shadows on the Plain: Uncovering a Massive Ancient Sanctuary for the Chosen Few
Deep in the Belize jungle, archaeologists have uncovered the lost tomb of Caracols founding Maya king…
Andrew Whitman5 min →
What drove the Maya Civilization obsessively align their architecture with the erratic movements of Venus?
Archaeology
What drove the Maya Civilization obsessively align their architecture with the erratic movements of Venus?
Discover how the ancient Maya deliberately misaligned grand monuments at Uxmal and Chichen Itza to match…
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The Invisible Poison in the Sacred Water of the Maya
Archaeology
The Invisible Poison in the Sacred Water of the Maya
New research reveals how the ancient Maya city of Ucanal achieved clean water but unknowingly poisoned…
Andrew Whitman5 min →
The Lost Wooden Village That Survived the Maya Collapse
Archaeology
The Lost Wooden Village That Survived the Maya Collapse
A newly discovered wooden village in the wetlands of Belize reveals how the Maya people survived…
Andrew Whitman5 min →
Naachtun’s Mosaic: A Maya Game Board Reveals a Lost World of Leisure and Symbolism
Archaeology
Naachtun’s Mosaic: A Maya Game Board Reveals a Lost World of Leisure and Symbolism
Archaeologists in Guatemala have unearthed a unique mosaic game board from the Maya city of Naachtun,…
Andrew Whitman4 min →
Archaeologists Just Found the Name of a Lost Maya Queen
Archaeology
Archaeologists Just Found the Name of a Lost Maya Queen
Archaeologists in Cobá have decoded ancient Maya glyphs revealing Queen Ix Ch’ak Ch’een, a sixth-century ruler…
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Maya Palace Complex Discovery: Insights into Ancient Political and Religious Life
Archaeology
Maya Palace Complex Discovery: Insights into Ancient Political and Religious Life
Maya Palace Complex Discovery: Insights into Ancient Political and Religious Life Introduction Deep in the heart…
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