The Yucatán Peninsula holds a wealth of archaeological evidence documenting the complex development of the Maya civilization.

For decades, archaeologists have crossed the Yucatán Peninsula’s Central Maya Lowlands looking for what the canopy still ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the ...

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 ...

Researchers used laser-guided imaging to uncover vast unexplored Maya settlements in Campeche, Mexico, revealing more than 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures, including a previously unknown large city with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have transcribed mural symbols from Mayan ruins to learn the name of an astronomer and mathematician from the ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our understanding of ancient Mesoamerican society. Hidden beneath the dense jungle ...

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 ...

Turkeys hold a special place in modern celebrations, especially during Thanksgiving. However, these birds have a rich history that dates back to ancient Maya civilization. In this culture, turkeys ...

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 ...