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

Learn more about Te K'ab Chaak, the first Maya king from Caracol whose tomb is rewriting the history of Maya-Mesoamerica relations.

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

Archaeologists at the Mayan period's most famous site, Tikal, discovered a similar greenstone mask during excavations in the 1960s in a Mayan royal tomb, dating to the first century A.D.

Sixteen hundred years ago, the inhabitants of the powerful ancient Maya kingdom of Tikal looked to the west and saw red. On a hilltop, in their direct line of sight, stood the Temple of the Night Sun.

It presents the picture of a bustling and interconnected Mexico long before the modern world arrived with its roads and ...

Lost tomb & body of ancient 1,700-year-old king buried with chilling death mask uncovered in Mayan temple. ... Caracol Archaeological Project / University of Houston.

An ancient mask depicting a 7th-century Mayan king has been discovered in southern Mexico. The find was made in the famous ancient city of Palenque in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Archaeologists d… ...

Deep in the Mexican jungle, archaeologists have discovered a real gem. Well, a gem made of stucco. Pacal the Great ruled the Mayan state of Palenque from age 12 to when he died at 80. Unlike the ...

Queensland University of Technology. (2008, January 27). Maya Mask Splendor Enhanced With Sparkling Mica. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 01 ...

Human-Sized Maya Mask Found in Mexico The stucco sculpture—dated to between 300 B.C. and 250 A.D.—probably depicts a deity or elite member of society. Isis Davis-Marks - Correspondent.