Archaeologists have revealed the chilling purpose of an ancient Mayan "Blood Cave" in Guatemala, determining it was used for ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Cueva de Sangre, or the 'Blood Cave', has proved fascinating for researchers for decades.

Mysterious liquid under 'gateway to the underworld' in MexicoHundreds of human bones found in an underground cave in ...

The Mayan civilization was one of the foremost to have developed the Mayan astrology system Mayan astrology is based the on the 260day ceremonial calendar called the Tzolkin which was used by the Maya ...

Guatemala’s Cueva de Sangre, translated as “blood cave,” isn’t just a clever name. It’s an apropos description of the cave former purpose, as a depository of fragments of human remains sacrificed by ...

A pair of chert points found alongside human skeletons in a cave in Belize may represent the first known tattooing needles ever discovered from a site linked to the ancient Maya civilization.

Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified what seem to be tools used by the ancient Maya for tattooing 1. The civilization of the ancient Maya, who lived in what is now Mexico and ...

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Archaeologists have discovered thousands of previously unknown ancient structures, including pyramids, hidden deep in Mexico's jungle. More than 6,600 structures linked to the Maya civilisation ...

Researchers excavating the ancient Mayan city of Dzibanche, on Mexico’s border with Belize, have uncovered a rare set of stucco reliefs that shed light on one of the region’s powerful 1st ...