University of Houston experts conducting excavations at Caracol in Belize found the tomb, which revealed burial artifacts and ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of the Maya king who founded the city of Caracol in what is now Belize.

Te K'ab Chaak was a wealthy warrior king who rose to power in 331 C.E. His burial is the first royal tomb found in the ...

Maya Sun God Masks. Top 10 Discoveries of 2012 January/February 2013. By Eric A. Powell ... The masks were painted bright red and depict several deities, including the sun god.

Belize cave was Maya child sacrifice site. ... Los Angeles, and colleagues suspect these children were sacrificed to a rain, water and lightning god that the ancient Maya called Chaac.

The sides of the temple are decorated with 5-foot-tall (1.5-meter-tall) stucco masks showing the face of the sun god changing as he traverses the sky over the course of a day.

That might explain a royal "wind jewel," carved with hieroglyphs, that archaeologists recently found at a Maya settlement in southern Belize.. The artifact was uncovered in a tomb at Nim Li Punit ...

The stone disc with the iconographic representation of the young maize god. It was recovered in 2021 in the Temple of the Sun within the Archaeological Zone of Tonina, Mexico.

In Mexico, the hours of the day are marked by an omnipresent sun—just as the Maya long count calendar counted a 24-hour period as one kin—one sun. Like the ruins of Pomona , Edzna gets fewer ...

Wildfires in 2024 heavily impacted the Maya communities of southern Belize, burning 43,987 hectares (108,695 acres), a staggering 10.2% of the region’s forest and farmland.

At the peak of their power from A.D. 600 to 800, the ancient Maya ruled a Meso-American empire stretching from the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico to parts of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvado… ...

By Victor Block ‘d heard that Belize has stretches of lovely beach, and world-class diving and snorkeling over the second longest barrier reef in the world, and it does. I knew that the its d… ...