Mesoamerican cultures shaped the history of Central America through remarkable achievements in architecture, science, and society. Among the most influential were the Maya, who thrived in present-day ...

The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

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.

Laser mapping technology has uncovered nearly 1,000 early Mayan settlements and human-built roads that connected them, according to a recent study, which suggests the civilization was more ...

During the fall of the Maya civilization over 1,000 years ago, kings were killed in public, captives were taken hostage, and in one notably violent event in the city of Aguateca, Maya fled their ...

Maya civilization was much vaster than known, thousands of newly discovered structures reveal People buried at Stonehenge 5,000 years ago came from far away, study finds ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of ...

The ancient Maya didn't have one central leader, like an emperor in ancient Rome, and were not unified into a single state. Instead, the ancient Maya civilization consisted of numerous small ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Maya had what was arguably the most advanced civilization in ...

Archaeologists have unearthed new clues about the mysterious demise of the Mayan civilization. A team headed up by researchers from University of Arizona studied ruins in Guatemala and harnessed a ...

Bustling Mayan cities such as Tikal, in present-day Guatemala, were likely abandoned due to a combination of deforestation and drought. Photo via Wikimedia Commons/Shark It’s long been one of ...