Footage of the tomb at the Palenque archaeological site in southern Mexico showed a series of nine figures depicted in black on a vivid, blood-red background.

This seashell with a small human figure was found with the Red Queen in Temple XIII, Palenque. DAGLI ORTI/ART ARCHIVE The other body lying outside the sarcophagus was an adult female thought to be ...

Palenque is an ancient Maya city located about 500 miles (800 km) southeast of Mexico City. It lies in northern Chiapas, near the bottom of a highland, overlooking a vast plain. Its ancient name ...

Archaeologists in the southern Mexican city of Palenque, Chiapas, have found a centuries-old, intricately carved Maya nose ornament made of human bone that offers insight into ancient funerary ...

This is the first nose ornament of its kind that archaeologists have found in Palenque, although artistic depictions of figures wearing such pieces appear elsewhere at the site — carved onto the ...