“Mayan calendar specialists anticipated solar eclipses by correlating their occurrences with dates in their 260-day ...

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 ...

Archeologist objects; story goes viral. Jan. 5, 2012 — -- The textbooks will tell you that the Mayan people thrived in Central America from about 250 to 900 A.D., building magnificent temples in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X When most folks think of ideas of freedom and democracy, people imagine the origins are in ancient ...

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 ...

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 ...