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 ...

The ancient site is believed to be one of the earliest and most significant ceremonial centers of the Maya civilization in ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in northern Guatemala, revealing a treasure trove of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala, revealing pyramids, murals, and statues.

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

The newly extracted genomes were then compared to over 700 ancient and modern genomes from across the Americas, resulting in a detailed genetic map ... of Classic Maya civilization, their genetic ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...