Explore archaeology and discoveries revealing the culture, cities, and achievements of the Maya.
A team of international archaeologists, physicists, and engineers will soon explore inside one of the greatest monuments of the ancient ...
A recent study offers a fresh perspective on what appears to have been an early rite of passage in ancient ...
Excavations at the ancient Maya city of Naachtun, in northern Guatemala, have yielded a one-of-a-kind artifact: a patolli gameboard that, ...
Until recently, Aguada Fénix had lain hidden beneath the fields and forests of southeastern Mexico for millennia. The vast earthen ...
A recent study has decoded how Maya astronomers forecasted solar eclipses with astonishing accuracy more than a thousand years ago, ...
Archaeologists have identified Ix Ch’ak Ch’een as one of the rulers of the ancient Maya city of Cobá, and uncovered ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved Late Classic Maya household complex buried on the Punta Ycacos Lagoon seafloor in southern Belize, ...
For over 1,300 years, Altar Q in Copán, the Maya capital of Honduras, has fascinated scholars. Carved in the late ...
Archaeologists have made a surprising discovery in Maya cultural traditions: decorative jade dental inlays, a practice previously thought to be ...
A sweeping new research study has shifted our image of the Maya civilization of the ancient past, and it appears ...
