A remarkable archaeological discovery hidden beneath the dense rainforests of Guatemala is changing what experts know about ...

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Luke Auld-Thomas was deep in Google search results when he stumbled onto a laser survey that revealed an ancient Mayan city ...

The discovery of the earliest known Maya Long Count calendar date on a crumbling stone monument in Campeche, Mexico, is shedding new light on how ancient Maya rulers used time to legitimize their ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The ancient Maya were a group of Mesoamerican Indigenous people who developed one of the most advanced societies in history, which such achievements ...

Photo by Jiang Dong/chinadaily.com.cn] A ceremony for Maize·Gold·Jaguar: A Grand Exhibition of Ancient Maya and Andean Civilizations was held at the Capital Museum in Beijing on Sunday. The exhibition ...

The ancient Maya civilisation exemplifies one of the most sophisticated preindustrial societies, characterised by intricate political hierarchies, economic specialisation and elaborate cultural ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived in southeastern Mexico and northern Central America in the early 800s. A hundred years later ...

We are standing in a ravine in southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle. The temperature tops 100 degrees. Sonic waves of cicada song roll over us. Tropical birds squawk and screech incessantly. A few feet ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know ...