The temperature hours ago climbed past 104 degrees, and the taxi’s air-conditioning is struggling to keep up. We are barreling across the lush plains of Uzbekistan on a midsummer afternoon. Then, ...

Casa Mexicana is on the waterfront in San Miguel with a breezy multistory lobby and front-row view of massive cruise ships ...

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

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

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years – from secret Maya pyramids and fascinating fossils to ...

“Let me tell you, they had an inside person,” a former thief said. “An inside person doesn’t mean they even know him. Could it be a girlfriend who’s a tour guide, and she knows, oh, where it is?” ...

Dresden Codex decoded: study unveils the Maya’s 700-year eclipse calculator “The 405-month eclipse table had emerged from a lunar calendar in which the 260-day divinatory calendar commensurated the ...

Climb up Mayan pyramids Less crowded but arguably more impressive than its coastal counterpart, Ek Balam offers an authentic and offbeat archaeological experience. The highlight is the Acropolis, a ...