Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The ancient Maya were a group of Mesoamerican Indigenous people who developed one of the most advanced societies in history, which such achievements ...

Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the ...

Long before the great Classic Maya cities rose from the jungle, a forgotten world of colossal monuments, towering pyramids, and rival chiefdoms was already shaping the foundations of Mesoamerican ...

Few things grip the human imagination quite like a civilization that was once great - building cities, writing laws, trading ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know ...

Tourists explore the ‘Dome of the Cathedral’, the largest chamber in Grutas Tzabnah (Yucatán, Mexico), and the origin of Tzab06-1. The artificial well ‘La Noria’ now illuminates the cave. (Mark ...

NMAI copy 39088007823347 has bookplate: In honor of Suzanne Ripley. AIMMRC copy 39088014427520 is a gift of Jane Safer. I. Prologue: Some problems posed ; Geography and environment ; Language and ...

Until recently, Mayan script was indecipherable. David Stuart was one of the few who helped to crack it.

A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...