Prufer) Maya processing maize, Santa Cruz, Belize(Keith M ... people moved into the area in fairly small numbers over a period of perhaps five hundred to one thousand years and mixed with local ...

The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, ...

By the second millennium B.C., the Maya occupied much of southern and eastern Mesoamerica, including all of the Yucatan Peninsula, Belize ... focuses on the Classic period (A.D. 250–900 ...

The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

Caracol is one of Belize's most stunning pieces ... once peaked at 120,000 Mayas in the Classic Period, making it one of the largest cities in the Maya world. Its most iconic structure is its ...

This popular Maya site, speckled with tombs, pyramids and temples, served as a trading nexus during the Maya Empire's Classic Period (A.D ... It was here that Belize's famous Jade Head, a nearly ...

Kate Middleton and Prince William headed into the hills and forests of Belize on Monday. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited ancient Mayan ruins at an archaeological site deep in the ...