ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed rare carvings on an ancient Mayan ball court depicting a powerful snake-themed dynasty. Excavators have uncovered three stucco reliefs that depict scenes of the Kaanu ...

Researchers excavating the ancient Mayan city of Dzibanche ... of finding decorated façades of such significance on a ball court.” Finding and preserving Mayan reliefs has been one of the ...

The site, in Dzibanché, was an early centre for the Maya and dates back to 300BC ... thought of finding such decorated façades on a ball court with such profound meanings as these ones ...

What began as a routine search on the internet led to one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in recent ...

No, this isn’t a plot from Indiana Jones: An ancient Maya city that’s been lost for centuries was just uncovered in Mexico.

Archaeologists discovered, through environmental DNA technology, that ceremonial rituals of the ancient Mayan civilization ... of hallucinogenic plants on the ball game fields, which they presume ...

Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery, ...

A team of archaeologists has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize. A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the ...

No, this isn’t a plot from Indiana Jones: An ancient Maya city ... Much like other Maya capitals, Valeriana was equipped with a reservoir, a ball court for sports and leisure, temple pyramids ...

Early scans show that the city was once the size of an ancient Maya capital — with multiple plazas, temples, a reservoir and even a ball court.

finding such detailed work on a ball court was unexpected. Moreover, this area was once a ceremonial space, and the carvings display three main scenes that provide insights into Maya beliefs. The ...