Mexican archaeologists have registered a sprawling ancient Maya city in southern Quintana Roo after local residents flagged ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site, the ...

Uxmal is considered one of the best-preserved cities of the ancient Maya world and remains one of the most impressive ...

The pyramid-building Maya reigned over much of Central America. Today, descendants keep Maya history alive—a sign of resilience. This sculpture of the head of a Mayan warrior found in the Temple of ...

I've ended up in the small town of Xpujil in the east of Mexico as part of a journey to find the ancient Mayan city of ...

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 ...

Why move to a city? And why leave? Urban centers today see populations ebb and flow for a multitude of reasons — the economy, crowds, lifestyle considerations, air quality, the odd pandemic perhaps.

Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during the ...

Researchers in the United States and Mexico have spotted an extensive Maya city under what is now the state of Campeche. Using a laser survey originally devised to study carbon sequestration in Mexico ...