Maya royalty: probable conquerors burned the kingdom’s sacred regalia, including a jade death mask much like this one (Bernard DuPont) ...

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital city in the classic Maya world, situated at the crossroads between Central ...

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Archaeologists discovered, through environmental DNA technology, that ceremonial rituals of the ancient Mayan civilization at the Yaxnohcah ruins (Yucatán Peninsula) were conducted with hallucinogens.

(a) Location of the Maya region in the Americas. (b) Geographical locations of Chichén Itzá and Tixcacaltuyub in the Yucatan Peninsula. (c) Stratigraphy for the chultún and the adjacent cave in which ...

An international team of archaeologists is set to utilize cosmic ray particles—a process known as muography—to penetrate the elusive and magnificent El Castillo temple, mapping its interior with ...

"Ancient Superstructures“ reveals the secrets behind the world’s most famous monuments. Some of the ancient marvels which are among the most studied and scrutinized monuments in the world still remain ...

Long before Christopher Columbus explored the coastlines of the Caribbean in the late 15th century, the Americas contained countless sprawling civilizations. Some of these, like the Mayans and the ...

This episode reveals the secrets of the Holy Sepulchre, the most sacred Christian site in the world. Every year, the site welcomes more than one million pilgrims. Built on the site of the death and ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery is shedding a new light on one of history’s biggest enigmas – the collapse of central America’s ancient Maya civilisation. This new discovery – the ritual ...

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