A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak—Caracol’s first known ruler. Buried with elaborate ...

It presents the picture of a bustling and interconnected Mexico long before the modern world arrived with its roads and airports.

Te K'ab Chaak was a wealthy warrior king who rose to power in 331 C.E. His burial is the first royal tomb found in the ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of the Maya king who founded the city of Caracol in what is now Belize.