The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

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 ...

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

A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coatimundi were found with the ...

The Maya ruler in question was Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of Caracol, an important Maya city that ruled the southern part ...

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

Found in the ancient city of Caracol, the tomb contained a rare jade mask, ceramics, and jewelry often linked to the Maya ruling class.

Archaeologists from the University of Houston have discovered the first royal tomb at the sprawling Maya site of Caracol, in ...

Uxbenká’s population was 3,000 to 5,000 people while Ix Kuku’il’s was about 1,800, smaller than the biggest Maya cities like Tikal in Guatemala with tens of thousands of people.

Their efforts reveal evidence of bustling cities containing hundreds of thousands of people spanning across parts of Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and El Salvador, with the ancient ...

A new analysis of the DNA of the remains of ancient people in the jungles of Belize reveals that farming technology arrived from the south. By Sabrina Imbler The tropics are a paradise for ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people.