More than 40 years after uncovering Caana, the central architectural complex at Caracol, Belize, husband-and-wife ...

Two University of Houston archaeologists have made scientific history with the discovery of a Mayan king's tomb in Belize.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The ...

Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín continues his ongoing exploration of the knot and its capacity for metaphor at Elizabeth Xi Bauer ...

The ancient Maya civilization is known for its innovation: math, astronomy, calendars, written language, agriculture—you name it, and the people living during the Classic Maya period probably ...

A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle lies the remains of an ancient city forgotten about for nearly 3,000 years, experts reveal.

A page of a historic Mayan manuscript, which depicts the Mayan calendar (Credit: Getty Images) Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are taking their ancient languages to new territories ...

From Head to Toe in the Ancient Maya World Features July/August 2020 By Lydia Pyne Clothing, jewelry, and body modification spoke volumes about people’s social status and the varied roles they ...

Did you know scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind the ancient Mayan calendar? For years, people were fascinated by its complex design and thought it might predict the end of the ...

While ancient Mayan culture offered various calendar types, the one that baffled scholars the most was this 819-day calendar discovered in glyphic texts.