A trio of ancient reservoirs in present-day Guatemala is revealing both the strength—and limitations—of Mayan water science.

Archaeologists uncovered how Hunacti's Maya town residents secretly preserved ancient rituals inside a colonial church while ...

Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during the ...

New research on the ancient Maya city of Ucanal in northern Guatemala reveals that its engineers maintained biologically clean drinking water for nearly 1,500 years, an extraordinary achievement in a ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a pre-Hispanic camp in Mexico where the ancient Maya cooked and ate snails. The researchers uncovered the camp during excavations in the municipality of ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our understanding of ancient Mesoamerican society. Hidden beneath the dense jungle ...

Here's what you need to know before visiting Tulum.

Using environmental DNA analysis, an international team of researchers identified a collection of plants used in ceremonial rituals in the ancient Maya city of Yaxnohcah in Mexico. The plants, known ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of food eaten by ancient Maya elites during special ritual banquets. Researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have ...

(The Conversation) — Broken mirrors can be associated with bad luck, but for the ancient Maya, a cracked mirror was often desirable. (The Conversation) — Some people fear that breaking a mirror can ...

What we learned this week: Left-handed people may have a psychological edge in competition. Humanoid robots can now do creepy ...