Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed rare carvings on an ancient Mayan ball court depicting a powerful snake-themed dynasty. Excavators have uncovered three stucco reliefs that depict scenes of the Kaanu ...

(image by report authors, courtesy Tulane University) Researchers believe it could be the second-densest known ancient Maya site in that ... Unlike many in the art world, we are not beholden ...

Researchers excavating the ancient Mayan city of Dzibanche ... which would have previously held a sculpture. Markings seem to indicate a specific Kaanu’l ruler, though researchers remain ...

The ancient Maya possessed many techniques for using their skin as a canvas on which to project information about their social role and status. One of the most common of these was body painting ...

A team of archaeologists has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize. A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the ...

Peering into dense forests in southern Mexico, an airborne survey has revealed traces of more than 6,700 houses, pyramids and other structures built by the ancient Maya 1. Archaeological mapping ...