"These faces, these portraits, look at us from the past. Their gaze transports us to the royal court of the ancient and ...

Are Mexico's many spiritual ceremonies actually real, or just invented to sell expensive experiences to tourists?

Located in the heart of Central America, Belize is not just a tropical paradise; but a paradise for chocolate enthusiasts, ...

Archaeologists working at the Chichén Itzá site on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico recently made a stunning discovery — a 1,100-year-old stone believed to be a scoreboard for an ancient Mesoamerican ...

An agent-based model of the ancient Maya social-ecological system. MayaSim is an integrated agent-based, cellular-automaton and network simulation of the Maya civilization on the Yucatan peninsula ...

A Maya Love for Chocolate These paintings from the ancient Maya city of Calakmul depict the preparation and drinking of cacao. ... Stunning jade mask found inside the tomb of a mysterious Maya king.

900-year-old astronomy guide is oldest known book written in the Americas. In a rare reversal, archaeologists have determined that a Maya book written almost 900 years ago is genuine—after ...

The mask is considered one of the biggest archeological finds from the Maya civilization and can be seen in Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology. Excavation of Palenque began in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists have discovered the remains of three Maya cities in the Petén jungle of ...

Researchers excavated an ancient Maya complex that spanned three cities in Guatemala. Each city featured its own unique architectural advancement: an observatory, a pyramid, and a canal system ...

Studying ancient DNA from the Maya region has always been challenging because the tropical climate makes it hard to preserve genetic material. Despite these difficulties, the research team achieved a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of ...