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.

Mesoamerica is home to a number of pyramids. Some of these pyramids are quite well-known, whilst others are much more obscure. Despite being recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest ...

A host of issues — including everything from staffing shortages and the rise of artificial intelligence to succession problems, the influx of private equity, and growing competition — are putting ...

This photo released by the Guatemalan government shows two anthropomorphic sculptures that "represent an ancestral couple." - Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and Sports Archaeologists have discovered ...