As you're crunching fresh fish tacos at sunset, watching the cruise ships disappear over the Caribbean Sea, feel sorry for ...

At a sprawling ceremonial complex in southern Mexico, archaeologists say they have identified a 3,000‑year‑old layout that appears to encode a vision of the universe in earth and stone. The site, ...

Archaeologists uncover a massive Maya monument in Mexico, challenging long-held beliefs about ancient power and early ...

The site's name, Patlachique, may derive from patla-achiuhcan, meaning "the place where exchanges are made to produce water," based on analysis of the glyph in the 16th-century Codex Vergara. This ...

Scholars have long known the Classic Maya (300-900 C.E.) were astronomers. Their pyramids at sites like Tikal and Chichen Itza were precisely aligned with solstices, equinoxes, and planetary cycles, ...

Two people died Saturday after a speeding Tesla eluded Colonial Heights police, crashed into a tree and caught fire in ...

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

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

Archaeologists working in southeastern Mexico unearthed further signs that a monument first recorded in 2020 is one of the region's most significant ceremonial sites known today.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...