Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

Buried secrets from an ancient Maya city are rewriting history. A groundbreaking DNA study reveals what led to the ancient ...

Ancient Maya DNA reveals a shocking twist: their civilization collapsed, but their people never vanished.

An international team of archaeologists discovered an ancient Maya city in a northeastern area of Guatemala known for its ...

Shortly after that year, a demographic decline began that would lead to the collapse of the Maya civilization. This decline may be related to factors such as prolonged droughts, internal conflicts, ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

A study of the genomes of seven people from the Classic Maya period (A.D. 250 to 900) of Copán in what is now western Honduras showed that the population dramatically shrank around 1,200 years ago.