Mexican archaeologists have registered a sprawling ancient Maya city in southern Quintana Roo after local residents flagged ...

An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest. The data came from laser scans ...

HOUSTON – A hidden Maya city was recently unearthed by experts at the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping at University of Houston, according to a release. Researchers found the lost Maya city ...

Somewhere beneath the scrubby limestone terrain of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a team of archaeologists has uncovered what ...

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Twice a year, tens of thousands of visitors crowd the base of El Castillo at Chichen Itza to watch triangles of sunlight ...

(CNN) — With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser ...

The height of the Maya kingdom, which stretched from 250 to 900 AD, included the rise of the Maya Ballgame, sometimes called pitz, and its ball court structures in the center of major cities. The ...

Support of the Mayan Train project collapsed due to intense rain and this caused a vehicle to be crushed. This incident has been compared to the Mexico City Metro Line 12 tragedy in which 26 people ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past. Ancient builders across the world created structures that are still standing today, ...