Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...

Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic ...

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 ...

Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

(CNN) — With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser ...

Learn what caused a major population crash in the Maya civilization, driving several cities to fall into ruin.

LOS ANGELES -- 250 ancient artifacts from the Mayan Civilization are on display in the US for the first time at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. "The Mayans have lived in Southern Mexico, ...

A new study from scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Center analyzed about 35,000 bone and shell fragments from the Maya city of Ceibal. Sean Mattson, STRI The jungle isn’t kind to bones.

They were hidden there, all this time, under the cover of tree canopies in the jungles of northern Guatemala: tens of thousands of structures built by the Maya over a millennium ago. Not far from the ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of Texas ...

Archeologists beam lasers from the sky to unearth ancient settlements hiding in plain sight. Lidar uses laser pulses to penetrate dense vegetation, revealing human-built structures underneath. The ...