Is your knowledge of the ancient Maya as extraordinary as their pyramids?

Among the rocks and marine fossils, scientists have found fossilized pollen from the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene periods that reflects changes in the surrounding ecosystems. The pollen reveals ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

The Aztecs didn't discover obsidian. It was already the most common raw material in Mesoamerica when they arrived in the ...

Why No One Talks About India’s Pyramid-Like Structures Introduction: The Pyramid Obsession When someone mentions the word ...

Traditionally, excavations deep in the jungles of Mexico, Central, and South America are difficult at best and dangerous at ...

A 1,700-year-old altar recently discovered at the ancient Maya city of Tikal has revealed unexpected evidence of ...

By 1697, Nojpeten, the last independent Mayan city, fell, and the civilization was largely forgotten ... "gardens" to calculate the yield of the ancient islanders' crops. However, Davis and ...

A pair of chert points found alongside human skeletons in a cave in Belize may represent the first known tattooing needles ever discovered from a site linked to the ancient Maya civilization.

Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified what seem to be tools used by the ancient Maya for tattooing 1. The civilization of the ancient Maya, who lived in what is now Mexico and ...