A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...

Using advanced scanning technology, researchers have located a major Maya site in the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our ...

Archaeologists have long known about ancient urban sites in the Maya Lowlands of southern Mexico. But this discovery was somewhat unexpected. Luke Auld-Thomas, an archaeologist at Tulane University, ...

The 13th edition of the Festival del Chocolate opens in Tabasco Nov. 14, celebrating Mexican chocolate and its history.

The city spans an area similar in size to Beijing, signalling its role as a likely political center of the Maya civilization ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

In "Espectro en Rojo," a geometric grouping of color and shape fills the composition. Interspersed among the boxy shapes are stylized elements that appear figural, reminiscent of ancient form.

He started concentrating his work in studying Guatemalan culture. “When you study the local but you ... Goyvaertz compared multinational Ladino and indigenous Mayan opinions about the mining projects.

The reliefs were made with artistic precision that demonstrates the high level of Mayan civilization and were created using a ...

A major Mayan city, named Valeriana, has been uncovered beneath the dense jungles of Mexico, thanks to Lidar technology. The ...

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of ...