Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Maya relief of royal blood-letting ... with wonderful extravagant headdresses. So far, so innocuous - but when I look more closely at the woman ...

And at the peak of their civilization, from a.d. 600 to 850, the Maya built monumental cities and produced art—stone sculptures ... Acarved stone relief (p. 51) bearing an inscription dating ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

As the researchers investigated, they discovered this altar, which still bears the faint outlines of a person wearing a feathered headdress ... in Teotihuacan than Mayan art.

Guatemala City (AFP) – A 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture has been discovered in the erstwhile Mayan city of ... face with a tasseled headdress, a necklace, and ...

Dated to between 400 and 450 AD, during the Classic Mayan period, the altar was found ... It shows a painted face with a tasseled headdress, a necklace, and other Teotihuacan elements.

Tikal, one of the most powerful Maya city-states, became a rival in this network. Previous discoveries — such as the famous ...

After the blast, what remained of the Parthenon’s metopes, or relief-carved panels ... City Times—and it is not the only Parthenon sculpture to be so divided. “We have from the same figure ...

Mayan art and writing, it turned out, contained stories of battles, sacrificial offerings and torture. Far from being peaceful, the Maya were warriors, their kings vainglorious despots.