After using lasers to map the Maya Lowlands, researchers have updated their estimates of the total Maya population during the ...

This video shows the ancient city of Tikal National Park, Petén, Guatemala, where massive Maya temples rise above one of the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...

Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar logging tracks. There, they found unique carved stelae and altars ...

The modern study of Maya civilization owes much to Uaxactun in northern Guatemala. It was there in 1916 that Sylvanus Morley, an American archaeologist and erstwhile spy, rediscovered a ruined city ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Native to the Maya village of Santa Cruz, Jose Mes welcomes visitors to his home to experience the Belizean Mayan culture.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists scanning through jungle terrain stumbled on what could have once been an important Maya location. The team ...

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The name "White-chested Fox" was found in drawings dating from 400 BC to 900 AD at the San Bartolo-Xultun archaeological site ...

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Top Image: Archaeologist Daniel Salazar Lama examines the 2,000-year-old Calakmul mural alongside a reconstruction of the ...