Evidence of a mysterious Mayan city has been uncovered in Guatemala, a Central American country south of Mexico.

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is a place of history and beauty, mystery and wonder. With its centuries-old Maya civilization, ...

This sediment record reflects both natural climate variation and the profound impact of human land use, especially during the rise and fall of the Maya civilization. Around 1,125 to 1,200 years ago, ...

The survey used light detection and ranging (lidar) technology, a remote-sensing method that sends thousands of laser pulses from an aircraft to map objects ... that the Maya civilization was ...

If you imagine looking at a map just of elevation in a town in the United States ... BRODIE: So what does this discovery tell us about the Mayan civilization? Like, what, what do we know now that we ...

built just before the Maya civilization rose to prominence. Harrison-Buck and her fellow archeologists used drones and Google Earth data to map 108 kilometers of ancient channels that zigzag ...

The previous team's aim was to map above-ground carbon in forests ... The height of the Mayan empire was the Classic period, which spanned from approximately 250 A.D to at least 900 A.D., when ...

Laser pulses generate a topographic map in a manner similar to how a ... “For a long time, our understanding of the Mayan civilization was limited to an area of a few hundred square kilometers ...

Lidar map of the Mayan city of Valencia ... revealing a region so densely populated that it challenges assumptions about Maya civilization’s rural character. With settlement densities at ...