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 ...

A new Mayan city has been found underground in Mexico ... This relatively new technology sends laser pulses into the ground ...

Not too far from the Maya city of Xpujil, the team discovered that ... “Because LiDAR allows us to map large areas very quickly, and at really high precision and levels of detail, that made ...

Lo and behold, there was something there: geometric edges on the map that could be the ruins of a missing Mayan city!

A previously unknown ancient Maya city has been discovered in the jungles of southern Mexico, the country’s anthropology institute said on Tuesday, adding it was likely an important centre more ...

The elegance and craftsmanship of the construction, as well as the lightness of the sculpted reliefs illustrating Mayan mythology, attest to the creative genius of this civilization. The city was ...

The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and paper. Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of ...