Mesoamerican cultures shaped the history of Central America through remarkable achievements in architecture, science, and society. Among the most influential were the Maya, who thrived in present-day ...

The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and bark paper. Using an interactive map, visit 15 of the better ...

The durability of Maya architecture could have several explanations, the first of which concerns location. Deeply familiar with the terrain, the Maya constructed their biggest settlements in places ...

Nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city with ‘remarkable’ architecture unearthed in Guatemala. Ancient city was likely one of most important ceremonial centres of Mayan civilisation ...

The Maya world At its height, during the Late Classic period (A.D. 600-900), Maya civilization formed a constellation of kingdoms and cities that stretched across the Yucatan Peninsula and Central ...

Because Maya architecture in this part of the world is so well preserved and the buildings are so steep, the original out-of-the-box ground-detecting algorithm had sheared off the tops of all the ...

The archaeological site contains some of the finest-known examples of Maya architecture and art. The Maya civilization dominated what is now southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the western ...