Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how they perceived the passage of time Vanessa Crooks The latest stages of ...

The first visit I made to the Maya ruins in Caracol, Belize, involved a three-hour trip through a labyrinth of deeply ...

Researchers are still puzzling through what happened to the ancient Maya civilization, which mysteriously dwindled. New ...

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with ...

New discoveries promise new insight into the ancient Maya civilization and its religion. Archeologists have found a network of 417 cities in northern Guatemala that date back to about 1000 BCE. The ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...

Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city. Auld-Thomas’ work helped locate an estimated 6,600 buildings only 15 minutes from a current ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olmec culture deeply shaped later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images An ...

Maya civilization in perspective -- Trajectories of evolution : Maya archaeology and the preclassic Maya -- Maya states before the classic period -- Planting the seed of civilization : the making of ...

Part 1. Prologue. Some problems posed -- Geography and environment -- Language and population -- Physical appearance and psychological traits -- Search and research -- Dating Maya history and the ...