Limestone is soft when first cut and hardens with age. Ordinary Maya homes were not built on platforms like the city temples and palaces but on ground level. They were built in an oval shape ...

near the ancient Maya city of Dos Hombres. To learn about the house’s long-dead residents, study author Angelina J. Locker analyzed a fragmented skeleton that was buried along with the teeth of ...

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While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — ...

Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

The discovery shows the cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and Teotihuacan's elite between 300 and 500 A.D., archaeologists said.