A woman purchased a nearly 2,000-year-old Mayan vase at a Maryland thrift store — but didn't realize what she had until she saw a similar one in a museum Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer ...

The vase turned out to be a 2,000-year-old Mayan artifact that is now headed to a Mexican museum. “It looked old-ish, but I thought maybe 20, 30 years old and some kind of tourist reproduction ...

A Late Classic (A.D. 600–900) Maya vase from the Peten region of Guatemala portrays a king and queen (above, center) preparing to perform a ceremonial dance. Both royal figures wear feather ...

Over the past 50 years, thousands of exquisitely painted Maya vases, almost all looted from tombs, have flooded into public and private collections. These amazing works of art, filled with humor ...