After more than four decades of work on the site, a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists with the University of Houston has uncovered remains of the first royal tomb at Caracol, a sprawling ancient ...

A team led by University of Houston archaeologists Arlen Chase and Diane Chase—a married couple about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary—has discovered the fourth-century CE tomb of an ...

In Maya art, kings are usually clean-shaven and stylized in specific ways—but one depiction stands out. A royal figure appears with a full beard and distinctive facial tattooing. In this ATG ...