Archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old royal tomb in Guatemala that's overflowing with funeral offerings, including an intricately designed jade mask depicting a Maya deity. The tomb, which ...

Hundreds of years ago, during the height of the Mayans’ rule in Guatemala, someone was buried in a huge tomb filled with “extraordinary” and “rare” offerings. The burial barely survived an aggressive ...

Choked by rainforest and crowded with fallen leaves, palms, and chunks of stone, the little-known site of Chochkitam, Guatemala, seems an unlikely place for a breathtaking archaeological find—much ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have uncovered a Mayan tomb estimated to be from 350 C.E. deep in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a discovery lead researcher Francisco Estrada-Belli has described as akin to ...

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A 1,700-year-old mosaic jade mask and a carved femur bone found inside an ancient Maya tomb at Chochkitam, Guatemala Located in Guatemala, the tomb also held rare mollusk shells, carvings and other ...

The little-known city of Chochkitam, located in northeast Guatemala’s dense rainforest near the border with Belize and Mexico, was last photographed by archaeologists some 100 years ago. In 2024, ...

Some couples collect magnets, others go antiquing on weekends and some collect ancient treasures and go digging for kings. Well, maybe only Arlen and Diane Chase do that, a duo from Texas who recently ...

The mysterious discovery in Guatemala of burned human remains and thousands of rich but ruined ornaments—supposedly what’s left of a Maya city’s royal rulers—may be rare and direct archaeological ...