A high-relief wall sculpture showing a female ruler subduing a captive male warrior was just uncovered, authorities in Mexico said Monday. The statuary found at the Mayan ruin site of Ek'Balam, on ...

A high-relief wall sculpture showing a female ruler subduing a captive male warrior was just uncovered, authorities in Mexico said Monday. The statuary found at the Mayan ruin site of Ek'Balam, on ...

Long sequestered in a private collection, the magnificent bas-relief carries an estimate of $27,000 to $39,000. The sculpture was almost certainly stolen in the early 1960s from the ancient Maya site.

The INAH added, "In this relief, the absence of a central sculpture is also noticeable, so it is not ruled out that the two missing effigies were removed, centuries ago, by the city's own ...

An ancient Maya relief sculpture that was found in a German antique shop and is suspected to have been looted from Mexico was returned to that country on 18 July, by way of the Mexican consulate ...

The high-relief stucco sculpture, which measures 26 feet by 6 feet, includes three main characters wearing rich ornaments of quetzal feathers and jade sitting on the heads of monsters.

Related: In photos: Hidden Maya civilization The mask is a stucco relief, a type of brightly-colored painted sculpture carved from a background of stucco.

Experts discovered a rare sculpture of the ancient Maya god K’awiil, near the path of construction for a large-scale rail project in Mexico. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

For the Maya, blood-letting was an ancient tradition, and it marked all the major points of Maya life - especially the path to royal and sacred power.