When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Luke Auld-Thomas, Antiquity Publications Ltd; CC BY 4.0 Laser surveys have revealed a ...

Mexico is experiencing historic growth in cultural tourism, underscoring the importance of its heritage as an economic and ...

Learn what caused a major population crash in the Maya civilization, driving several cities to fall into ruin.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers excavated an ancient Maya complex that spanned three cities in Guatemala. Each city featured its own unique architectural advancement: an ...

This week’s news that archaeologists have discovered the long-lost city of Valeriana highlights one major part of Maya society: astronomical observatories. More than 6,000 structures unveiled ...

After more than four decades of work on the site, a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists with the University of Houston has uncovered remains of the first royal tomb at Caracol, a sprawling ancient ...

Archaeologists working at Naachtun, a Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, have uncovered a unique fifth-century patolli ...

East of the town of Dos Lagunas, past the major highway cutting through Mexico’s south, the forest rises up in a dense wall of grasping roots, spindly branches and veils of brown and green. Beyond it ...

(CN) — Tulane University researchers uncovered sprawling, long-lost Maya settlements hidden deep in Mexico’s dense jungles using laser-guided technology, leading them to believe that there are untold ...

No, this isn’t a plot from Indiana Jones: An ancient Maya city that’s been lost for centuries was just uncovered in Mexico. Scientists discovered over 6,500 pre-Hispanic Maya structures within a ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archaeologists have found an ancient Maya city that remained hidden for centuries in the rain forests of eastern Mexico, a discovery in a remote nature reserve they hope will ...