For those seeking a quieter, more affordable alternative to Chichén Itzá, these temples across the Yucatán Peninsula offer a ...

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

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

Across southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, ancient Maya cities lie scattered like puzzle pieces waiting to be ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

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 ...

The 'Empire' actress and her husband wed in March ... adorable snaps of his and the 41-year-old actress' twins Cooper and Maya, 12 months, as they embarked on their first flight.

The “Classic Period” of Mayan civilization lasted from about 250 to 900 and was followed by the “Postclassic Period,” which lasted from about 900–1519, according to Britannica.

For decades, information about the vast civilization depended ... just the latest of several studies to map a clearer, more complex picture of the Maya. Auld-Thomas found the lidar images ...