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Hearts torn from chests, blood spilled on stone altars—these brutal offerings weren’t punishment, but devotion. In temples ...

For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they ...

Major discovery marks culmination of 40 years of work by Arlen and Diane Chase. Archaeologists from the University of Houston have discovered the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak at Caracol, an ancient Maya city ...

The Maya ruler in question was Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of Caracol, an important Maya city that ruled the southern part ...

UH archaeologists discover the tomb of Maya ruler Te' K’ab' Chaak in Caracol, Belize, marking the first major royal burial found there in 40+ years.

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

It was the 1,700-year-old tomb of a Maya ruler — the first ever found at Caracol, the largest Maya site in Belize — and it held clues to a Mesoamerican world where cities contended with one ...

A Maya king’s tomb discovered in Belize offers the first proof of royal rule at Caracol and sheds light on early ties with Teotihuacán.