Belize may not be the first country to come to mind when you think of famous Mayan archaeological wonders. Sites like Ch ...

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

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

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.

Te K’ab Chaak was the first dynastic leader of the Maya region of Caracol. Even after the king died, his dynasty last another ...

Native to Belize and Guatemala, the Mopans are one of the 28 subethnic groups of the Maya people. Roughly 10,000 people in Belize identify as Mopan, making up less than 3% of the country’s ...

Bulldozers destroy Mayan pyramid in Belize; ... a Central American country of about 350,000 people that is largely covered in jungle and dotted with hundreds of Mayan ruin sites, ...

But deep in the jungles of Belize, ... Around 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, before the classic period of the Maya, people harvested tiny Pachychilus snails for food.

WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - An examination of numerous houses excavated at two sites in southern Belize is providing insight into gaping wealth inequality in ancient Maya cities - a disparity ...

Archeologist Amy Thompson excavates at the ancient Maya site of Uxbenka, Belize in April 2012. ... Uxbenká’s population was 3,000 to 5,000 people while Ix Kuku’il’s was about 1,800, ...