Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic ...

The beautiful national park boasts monkeys, jaguars and dense rainforest - and it may look familiar to Star Wars fans as it ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

A list for history lovers, curious minds and anyone fascinated by lost empires, ancient power and the stories that still ...

In Mexico, researchers discovered a large—scale structure among the ancient Maya, which, as it has now been established, was ...

An ancient Maya structure was likely built around communal astronomical observations, but the identity of a mysterious woman ...

A new exhibit exploring the ancient Mayan civilization has opened at the Hebei Museum in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

Running along the Caribbean shores of the lush Yucatán Peninsula, Riviera Maya is a 100-mile (160km) stretch of sands sprinkled with vibrant beach towns, wildlife-rich jungle, ancient Mayan ruins and ...

A pyramid within a pyramid within a pyramid: That’s what archaeologists said they have found at the ancient Maya site of Chichén Itza in the Yucatàn Peninsula in the far south of Mexico.

Archaeologists performing excavations around a massive Maya pyramid located in El Salvador’s Zapotitán Valley near the ancient village of San Andrés, close to Lake Ilopango, discovered something ...