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

Ek’ Balam is one of the most impressive Mayan archeological zones, thanks to its incredible preservation. A new discovery ...

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

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 ...

The research team scoured the 12 th century C.E. Dresden Codex—a rare, fully preserved Maya book known for its eclipse table.

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

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

Astonishing new archaeological research has uncovered the mathematical secrets behind the ancient Maya’s ability to predict ...

The study and consolidation of the Plaza Elevada Este (East Elevated Plaza) of the Ek’ Balam acropolis was carried out under ...

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

ONE of the most interesting of all available studies of man’s behavior waits, barely sampled, just beyond our own back yard in what anthropologists call Middle America: the region extending from ...