Human eyes are as individual as fingerprints. Like those of a living person, the eyes of this ceramic figurine discovered recently at the site of Xanab Chak in the Puuc region of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

Two of Tulum’s major archaeological sites have doubled their entrance fees this year, making visiting them a bit more ...

On this week's Keepin It Real, Cam and his wife went to Belize in December and visited some of the ruins that Belize is ...

Archaeologists in Mexico discovered a rare 1,400-year-old cube-shaped skull, revealing ancient cranial modification practices ...

UH archeologists Arlen and Diane Chase uncovered the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of the Maya city of Caracol, ...

After more than four decades of excavation at the Maya site of Caracol, a team led by University of Houston archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase made a first-of-its-kind discovery when they uncovered ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...

A novel multichannel ground-penetrating radar (MCGPR) system was tested at the Mayan site of El Caracol (Chichen Itza, Mexico). The present work describes how a new methodology integrating real-time ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — A fragment of a mask that was preserved for hundreds of years in permafrost sat in the muck of a low tide in the western Alaska community of Quinhagak. Wooden spoons, toys, a fishing ...

Long before anyone claimed to be a “native Coloradan,” there were cliff dwellers, hunter-gatherers and even Ice Age inhabitants shaping the landscape. Many of their settlements have been excavated in ...

Something of a hidden gem, Caracol is one of the largest Maya sites of Central America, and certainly the largest in Belize, yet it receives far less footfall than other ruins in the region. The ...

Archaeologists already knew that adult Maya had tooth inlays, but this is some of the first evidence that children also had tooth bling. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...