Mexico is a land full of beauty, history, and vibrant culture, offering some of the most stunning and fascinating places on ...

The Maya seem to have developed alongside, and traded ideas with, the neighboring Olmec civilization, which some consider one of the most influential societies of ancient times.

Incredibly, a place in El Salvador survived the near annihilation and still contains well-preserved remnants of an ancient society buried under layers of ash, earning it the nickname of the "Pompeii ...

Scientists studied the genetic makeup of seven Maya individuals—including one who was the victim of human sacrifice.

Every little piece we can obtain from the excavations is fundamental, like a piece of the larger puzzle we are putting ...

Belize is home to some of the most fascinating cave systems in the world, offering unique underground adventures for ...

Archaeologists unearthed Los Abuelos, aka "The Grandparents," a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala, complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments that reveal new traces of the ancient ...

The Mayan civilization arose around 2000 BC, reaching its height between 400 and 900 AD in what is present-day southern Mexico and Guatemala, as well as parts of Belize, El Salvador and Honduras.

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our understanding of ancient Mesoamerican society. Hidden beneath the dense ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already ...

A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...