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 ...

The find includes several pyramidal structures over 15 meters tall. A team of archaeologists in Mexico have discovered the remains of an ancient Mayan city deep in the jungle of the Yucatán Peninsula ...

The tomb of a Mayan king has been discovered by Texas archaeologists in Caracol, Belize, marking the first time researchers in the ancient city have found a ruler's identifiable resting place. Caracol ...

Archaeologists have harnessed sophisticated technology to reveal lost cities and thousands of ancient structures deep in the Guatemalan jungle, confirming that the Maya civilization was much larger ...

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Airborne laser scanners that can peer through the jungle have revealed what may be the oldest and largest ancient Mayan structure ever found — a 3,000-year-old ceremonial platform almost a mile long ...

MEXICO CITY — Fifty-four years after it was sold by looters, an ancient Maya pictographic text was judged authentic by scholars Thursday. Mexico’s National Institute of History and Anthropology said ...

The long-predicted Mayan apocalypse is nigh, and though not everyone believes the world will end, some people are making survival preparations for whatever catastrophe may strike on Dec. 21. NASA ...

Ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico are currently inaccessible due to drug cartel violence and land disputes, the government has admitted. In a blow to the country's tourism industry, multiple structures ...

A Mayan pyramid that has stood for 2,300 years in Belize has been reduced to rubble, apparently to make fill for roads. Local media in the Central American country of 334,000 people report the temple ...