Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site, the ...

An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest. The data came from laser scans ...

Those who travel to the Yucatán Peninsula will recognize the beautiful temple complexes and ruined cities of the Ancient Maya. Peaking in the Maya Classic Period of 250-900 CE, this civilization was ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala, revealing sanctuaries, pyramids and a unique canal system that could shed further light on the ...

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

WASHINGTON — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery, ...

With the human eye, the area between the Mexican towns of Conhuás and Constitución is empty. The vast landscape, an unpopulated region of Campeche, consists of sprawling lowlands and wetlands dotted ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...