Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

The resulting map showed an area composed of 964 settlements ... this month to continue their research into the early Mayan civilization, according to Hansen.

Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

Scientists say this extensive road-and-city network, along with sophisticated ceremonial complexes, hydraulic systems and agricultural infrastructure, suggests that the ancient Maya civilization ...

Laser pulses generate a topographic map in a manner similar to how a ... “For a long time, our understanding of the Mayan civilization was limited to an area of a few hundred square kilometers ...

The survey used light detection and ranging (lidar) technology, a remote-sensing method that sends thousands of laser pulses from an aircraft to map objects ... that the Maya civilization was ...

“You’ll hear that Maya civilization ended in 1000 A.D. It didn ... their team examined prior attempts to map the population of the region, focusing on the decades spanning the collapse ...

Then, they used satellite imagery to map the areas that produced the most crops for the Maya. Many archeologists ... us a clearer picture about their civilization unknown until now." ...