To Masson, Delgado Kú, and their colleagues, Mayapan’s story contradicts the idea that the Maya disappeared, or even that the ...

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ago. The site was a thriving settlement during the Classic Maya ...

Archaeologists Discover Residue of 'Food From the Gods' in 1,000-Year-Old From Mayan Vessels, Say It Represented Wealth and ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

Not only is the country rich in natural beauty and wildlife, but it is also rich in culture and history, as the Maya ...

Archaeologists, with the help of drones and Google Earth imagery, have discovered 4,000-year-old canals in Belize that were once used by the predecessors of the ancient Mayans to catch freshwater ...

The Maya grew root crops like sweet potatoes and cassava along ... Deep in the Mexican jungle, anthropological archaeologist Charles Golden, P’28, unearths remnants of a civilization of warriors, ...

The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span. That’s a much broader view of the tricky ...

British archaeologist Gordon Childe believed that archaeology is the study of researching and comparing an assemblage of ...

Cancún is surrounded by some of the world's most captivating ancient cities, built centuries ago by the Mayan civilization. You can visit extensive and dazzling ruins that are just minutes away ...

The Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza, also known as El Castillo, stands as a testament to the Mayan civilization's advanced understanding of astronomy and architecture. The temple's design ...