Ms Goodall said the mica was applied over the red paint of stucco masks on the corners of Copan's well-preserved Rosalila temple, found buried under another pyramid. "The Rosalila would have been one ...

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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.

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 ...

An ancient mask depicting a 7th-century Maya 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 ...

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The tomb of Te K'ab Chaak, who once ruled over what is now modern-day Belize, was ...

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 jade ...

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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 masks ...