Ek’ Balam is one of the most impressive Mayan archeological zones, thanks to its incredible preservation. A new discovery ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

A new exhibit exploring the ancient Mayan civilization has opened at the Hebei Museum in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, ...

Among the early Maya, the site of Aguada Fénix would have been a place for everyone to gather for trade, socialization, and ...

A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...

A groundbreaking new study led by Tulane University found that the population of the Maya civilization was higher than previously understood, revealing that the Maya did not have fragmented ...

(CNN) — With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser ...

LOS ANGELES -- 250 ancient artifacts from the Mayan Civilization are on display in the US for the first time at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. "The Mayans have lived in Southern Mexico, ...

The Maya civilization flourished more than 1,000 years ago, but modern technology is only now revealing the secrets of this ancient Mexican and Central American culture—and it’s happening at an ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of Texas ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a colossal Maya cosmogram at Aguada Fenix, which serves as a 3,000-year-old map of the universe ...