Unearthing chilling Maya rituals, archaeologists uncover dismembered remains and sacred offerings inside Guatemala’s ancient ...

Combining sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation, the ancient “milpa” system of the Maya revealed ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

Across southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, ancient Maya cities lie scattered like puzzle pieces waiting to be ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

Scientists have unearthed the body of a 4,500-year-old woman in Peru. What’s surprising is that they found not just her bones ...

One of the oldest civilizations in Mesoamerica, the Mokaya were skilled artists, farmers, traders and even sportsmen.

A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism ...

Once the capital of a network of more than 200 ancient Mayan cities, this is where an estimated 200,000 ... who settled in the area in the 1900s to farm chewing gum sap, one of the main industries at ...

From the Aborigines to the ancient Mayan, rain has represented survival, and tribes found ways to work with nature to collect ...