A sprawling Maya metropolis, hidden for centuries beneath dense tropical canopy, is coming into focus as archaeologists ...

Deep inside the forested region of Campeche, researchers studying laser-based LiDAR data noticed shapes that did not match the surrounding natural land. The scans showed clean edges, elevated ...

The ancient town comes with pyramids, buildings, stone columns, and a ball field.

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics of ...

Uxmal is one of the crown jewels of Puuc architecture, a style of Maya building that flourished in the Yucatán over 1,000 ...

A recently interpreted inscription reveals the existence of a forgotten Maya queen in Cobá, changing what was known about ...

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 ...

This early history of the Maya peoples in Mesoamerica details the art and architecture of the Preclassic period, more than ...

Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche — a sprawling, urban settlement replete with architectural ...

Nowadays, the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala, have been largely reclaimed by the jungle. Howler monkeys jump from pyramid to pyramid. Bats hide in the crevices of abandoned ...