The site dates back to 1050 B.C., even before the Mayan writing system existed, according to Live Science. It exhibited ...

Archaeologists involved in documenting the site described the volcanic rock surfaces as "among the earliest canvases of the human imagination," noting that every carved line—whether depicting animals, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a massive 3,000-year-old Maya site in Mexico. This ancient site, ...

An ancient Mayan monument found at Mexico’s Aguada Fénix site in 2020 has now been revealed by archaeologists as a cosmogram.

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 ...

Starting from an island in Mexico, the teams have to reach the northernmost point of South America in a monumental race ...

The site's layout follows the solar movement and “is comparable to, or even greater than, those of later Mesoamerican cities.

Beneath the pastures and clay soil of a remote cattle ranching area in the Mexican state of Tabasco, near the border with ...

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by ...

In the summer of 2020, an international team led by a University of Arizona archaeologist reported the discovery of the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

Archaeologists have made a discovery offering new insights into the political power and religious symbolism of the Maya Late ...