Guatemalan security forces seized on Friday 143 stolen pre-Hispanic Mayan artifacts from a gang possibly linked to two Americans living in the country, arrested in November for trafficking ...

Archaeologists have discovered a cave filled with hundreds of artifacts beneath the ruins of the Mayan city of Chichen Itza in Mexico, the lead researcher on the project said Monday, calling the find ...

Archeologists working off the coast of Belize have discovered a wooden canoe paddle that is more than 1,000 years old. The find sheds new light on how the ancient Maya culture of Central America ...

ANTIGUA, Guatemala (AP) — Two Americans, one a photographer and the other a connoisseur of Mayan folk art, are facing charges of smuggling pre-Hispanic artifacts in Guatemala Tuesday in a case that ...

It’s a blast from the long-ago past. Archaeologists unearthed a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala — complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments — that reveals new traces of the ancient ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A sculpture of a Mayan warrior that sold for more than $4 million (2.5 million pounds) at a Paris auction house this week is a fake, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology ...

Hidden in the jungle like a secret treasure, a colossal Mayan city has just been discovered by archaeologists. This ancient city, known as "City of the Serpent", is a lost world that resembles an ...