Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – While scanning the Yucatan jungle in Mexico with lasers, scientists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered an 18-kilometer (11-mile)
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Every society has some degree of wealth inequality—over history, in different cultures across continents. There always seem to be some people who have
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – For the first time, Washington State University researchers have identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers. The team
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists have once again used LIDAR technology with success. Using light detection and ranging technology scientists have located the world’s oldest and largest
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The ancient Maya believed that the underworld – Xibalba – was a ‘place of fear’. In some ancient accounts, it is a domain of
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Abaj Takalik (also Tak’alik Ab’aj means ‘standing stone‘ in the local K’iche’ Maya language) has a pre-Columbian origin. The earliest known occupation at
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – A 2,000-year-old stela known as Stela 87 was recently found by archaeologists working at the Tak’alik Ab’aj archaeological park in El Asintal, 85 miles
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – The long-lost capital of an ancient Maya kingdom in the backyard of a Mexican cattle rancher has been discovered by associate professor of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – When Gonzalo Guerrero was a small boy, he dreamed about visiting foreign lands and meeting exotic people. He had heard about Christopher Columbus’
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – More than 8,000 tree-shrouded structures of varying sizes along the sacbe (white road) – with enough total volume to fill approximately 2,900 Olympic
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists have discovered a large palace at the Mayan city of Kulubá in Yucatán. According to the first reports, it seems the structure
MessageToEagle.com – It’s a quite extraordinary discovery. The second largest jade has been found in Belize. It’s a large Maya pendant that was won on a king’s chest is
MessageToEagle.com – Research team working in Ceibal-Petexbatun Archaeological Project and led by Takeshi Inomata of the University of Arizona, have studied both collapses of Maya civilization at Guatemala’s Maya
MessageToEagle.com – Many of the so-called Aztec temples were temples that existed before the Aztec empire did. Many peoples and cities were conquered and forced to pay tribute,
MessageToEagle.com – Ever since its discovery in the 1960s, the Grolier Codex has been a subject of controversy. This ancient document that is among the rarest books in
MessageToEagle.com – After Teotihuacan Empire eventually went into decline around 600- 700 CE, Pre-Hispanic City of El Tajin became the most important center in north-east Mesoamerica. Located in
MessageToEagle.com – To improve one’s body is something modern people do all the time and it should not come as a surprise that the ancient did the same, only
MessageToEagle.com – The ancient Maya were skilled astronomers who watched the movements of the stars and planets, which is why they often built astronomical observatories to match the path
MessageToEagle.com – A teenage boy has made one of the most incredible archaeological discoveries this year. 15-year-old, William Gadoury, who is a 15-year-old from Quebec, Canada has a
MessageToEagle.com – On April 3, 686, Maya king Yuknoom Ixquiac (Yuknoom Yich’aak K’ahk’) – “Jaguar Paw Smoke” assumes the crown of Calakmul, now a Maya archaeological site in the
