As the ancient Mayan civilization slowly collapsed in Central America some thousand years ago, perhaps in the face of a quickly changing environment, its survivors retreated with their most precious ...

Archaeologists say they have discovered hundreds of Mayan artifacts, including ceramic vessels and burial sites, along the route of a train construction project in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

The object was likely looted from a Mayan archaeological site in the 1960s and eventually ended up in the hands of a prominent Los Angeles art dealer, the Los Angeles Times reported. From there, it ...

A woman from Washington, D.C.,was in for quite the surprise after she purchased a vase from a thrift shop for $3.99, which turned out to be a Mayan artifact. Mom of three and cultural worker Anna Lee ...

LOS ANGELES -- 250 ancient artifacts from the Mayan Civilization are on display in the US for the first time at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. "The Mayans have lived in Southern Mexico, ...

The Tren Maya is one of those rare trains that's hard to love. It's an upwards of $20 billion project meant to take tourists into the heart of the Mexican rainforest where important, hard-to-reach ...

Albion College received the Mayan urn as a gift. It will soon makes its way back to Chiapas, Mexico. An artifact belonging to the Mayan Empire will finally make its way back home after spending more ...

When Washington, D.C. resident Anna Lee Dozier picked up a vase at a thrift store in Maryland five years ago, she thought it a faithful reproduction of a Mayan artifact. “It did look old to me,” she ...

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 say they have discovered hundreds of Mayan artifacts, including ceramic vessels and burial sites, along the route of a train construction project in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.