Archaeologists uncover a rare Maya mosaic gameboard in Guatemala, revealing how ancient games were built into elite Maya ...

The history of the ancient Maya board game patolli gained a new twist when archaeologists discovered a game board embedded in ...

Patolli was detected in the ancient city of Naachtun in northern Guatemala, found to be embedded within the floor of a ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

Archaeologists in northern Guatemala have uncovered a rare discovery at the ancient Maya city of Naachtun: a patolli gameboard crafted as a floor mosaic, the first of its kind in the region. The ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of three Maya cities in the Petén jungle of Guatemala.

ABC News Live's original docuseries "Last Lands," the Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning show, is returning for season 2, kicking off in Guatemala's Petén region. "Last Lands" covers the two-day journey ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries. Pushing out criminal gangs and protecting the land ...