A Maryland resident purchased a vase for about $4 on a clearance rack at a local thrift store, and kept it in her home for a few years. Upon visiting the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, she recognized that many of the artifacts resembled the vase she had at home to a remarkable […]
A woman purchased a nearly 2,000-year-old Mayan vase at a Maryland thrift store — but didn’t realize what she had until she saw a similar one in a museum Esteban Moctezuma Barragan/x Mayan artifact sold for $4.99 at Maryland thrift store returned to Mexico A woman from Washington, D.C.,was in for quite the surprise after […]
K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history. For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala. From the fifth century C.E. into the seventh century, scribes painted his ancestors’ genealogies into manuscripts and carved them in stone monuments throughout the city. Around 650, one particular […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government has acknowledged that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors due to a toxic mix of cartel violence and land disputes. But two tourist guides in the southern state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, say two other sites that the government claims are […]
Hidden within a Mayan palace in Mexico sat the remnants of a decadent feast. The 1,100-year-old menu — once open only to the elites and deities — is still eaten today. Archaeologists unearthed the leftover food at the palace of the ancient Mayan city of Palenque, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said in […]