Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
An amazing new find is expanding our understanding of Maya Blue—one of the most enigmatic and enduring pigments of the ancient world. Dean E. Arnold, adjunct curator of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and professor…
Archaeologists excavating the Maya pyramid at K’anwitznal, known today as Ucanal, in present-day northern Guatemala, have unearthed human remains among thousands of jade and marine ornaments. The findings, detailed in a paper published in the journal Antiquity, reveal the aftermath…
A team of researchers, led by Francisco Estrada-Belli of Tulane University, uncovered an intact jade mask in the tomb of a Maya King at the little-known archaeological site of Chochkitam in northeastern Peten, Guatemala. Chochkitam, initially reported in 1909 and…
