The Maya civilization emerged circa 2000 BCE, and for centuries they ruled over an extensive territory in Central America.

A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

Archaeologists uncover the earliest known Maya salt works in Belize, revealing insights into ancient salt production and ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our ...

The reliefs were made with artistic precision that demonstrates the high level of Mayan civilization and were created using a ...

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of ...

Tulane researchers uncovered over 6,500 Maya structures in Mexico using lidar, revealing a complex settlement landscape and challenging previous assumptions about the Maya civilization’s urban and ...

Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city. Auld-Thomas’ work ...

Using lidar technology, researchers surveyed 50 square miles of Campeche, Mexico, discovering an entire previously unknown ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

Archaeologists have long known about ancient urban sites in the Maya Lowlands of southern Mexico. But this discovery was somewhat unexpected. Luke Auld-Thomas, an archaeologist at Tulane University, ...