(Various, Guatemala) -- Archaeologists from Guatemala and the United States have discovered a rare tomb with the remains of an ancient Maya queen warlord, experts announced in Guatemala City on ...

An international team of archeologists has unearthed the earliest known portrait of a goddess or royal Maya woman, a 6-foot, 6-inch carved stone stela, or pillar, that is at least 200 years older than ...

Archeologists excavating in the Guatemalan rain forest have unearthed what appear to be the 1,300-year-old remains of a Maya warrior queen, a rare find in a society that was dominated by men. The ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ANTHROPOLOGIST AND DIRECTOR AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY, DIEGO PRIETA, SAYING: "The central chamber (of Mayan temple) was used for burial, inside a ...

Did she build it for war or peace? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ruthless Maya warrior queen may have ordered the building of ...

Live Science: A ruthless Mayan warrior queen may have ordered the building of an elaborate road more than 1,000 years ago to invade a distant city and to counter the rising power of another, ...

Archaeologists say they've discovered what could be the tomb of one of the greatest Mayan rulers, the seventh-century warrior queen Lady K'abel. The tomb was revealed during digging at the ancient ...

Glyphs carved into a tiny alabaster jar have led archaeologists to conclude that the tomb in Guatemala where the jar was found belonged to one of the greatest queens of the Classic Maya civilization, ...

A tablet found in a tunnel beneath the main temple of the ancient Mayan city El Perú-Waka’ in northern Guatemala has revealed secrets of what archaeologists describe as a “dark period” in Mayan ...