(Who were the Maya? Decoding the ancient ... pieces together the jade mosaic mask in the Holmul Archaeological Project Laboratory in Antigua, Guatemala. Jade mosaic pieces are laid out after ...

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 ...

An image of the jade mask found in the tomb of a Maya king at Chochkitam in Guatemala. The tomb and artifacts inside it are thought to date to around 1,700 years ago. An image of the jade mask ...

Jade mask discovered inside an ancient Mayan tomb dating from 1,700 years ago in Chochkitam, Guatemala. Credit: Francisco Estrada-Belli / Tulane University A team of archaeologists from Tulane ...

a mosaic jade mask, 16 spondylus shells, and carved human femurs have been discovered in a 1,700-year-old tomb at Guatemala’s Maya site of Chochkitam by archaeologist Francisco Estrada-Belli.

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find ... Glass cabinets are filled with wooden masks, stone animal totems, flint carvings of the god of corn, obsidian tools ...

A rendering (top) of one of the masks representing the Maya sun god found at El Zotz’s Temple of the Night Sun in Guatemala shows places where crimson pigment remains. The five-foottall stucco ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala, revealing sanctuaries, pyramids and a unique canal system that could shed further light on the ancient ...

Tsai and Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Búcaro, representing Giammattei — who suffers from multiple sclerosis – climbed one of the Mayans’ most important pyramids: Temple II, also called Temple of ...

GUATEMALA CITY – Taiwanese President ... also called Temple of the Masks. With incense, a Mayan invocation ceremony, a Mayan ball game and an exchange of gifts, Tsai and Giammattei talked ...