The discovery was made in Mexico. ArchaeologistJacob Welch spotted a human-sized Maya Mask in 2017, when he was excavating Ucanha, a site on the Yucatán Peninsula near the coast of the Gulf of ...

Archaeologists working at the Chichén Itzá site on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico recently made a stunning discovery — a ...

The mask has been reburied for its own protection. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A giant Mayan mask as tall as a person ...

In 2017, archaeologist Jacob Welch was conducting excavations at Ucanha, a site on the Yucatán Peninsula near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, when he came across an enormous Maya mask sculpted ...

An ancient mask depicting a 7th-century Maya king has been discovered in southern Mexico. The find was made in the famous ancient city of Palenque in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Archaeologists ...

Ancient Mayan temple builders used dazzling lustrous ... Ms Goodall said the mica was applied over the red paint of stucco masks on the corners of Copan's well-preserved Rosalila temple, found ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a remarkable and "extremely rare" jade mask from the tomb of an ancient Maya king who died around 1,700 years ago.

But that’s exactly what researchers recently discovered at the site, in the form of a mysterious, interlocking jade mask believed to have belonged to a previously unknown Maya king. The find ...

The mask, painted red in with cinnabar paint, was discovered beneath the head of the ruler. Archaeologists at the Mayan period's most famous site, Tikal, discovered a similar greenstone mask ...

Inside the tomb lay the remains of an elite Mayan wearing a Jade "death mask", and hieroglyphs etched into the sarcophagus confirmed that the remains belonged to King Pacal. The artwork found ...

Well, a gem made of stucco. Pacal the Great ruled the Mayan state of Palenque from age 12 to when he died at 80. Unlike the jade mask discovered in 1952 with Pacal's body, this one unusually ...

of asking people (to wear masks), when we should be conscious of the risks we face," he continued. The temple of Chichen Itza, built by the Mayans, is Mexico’s second most-frequented ...