The stela depicts a ruler and a Jaguar god deity, showing how Maya kings used calendars for power.

Laser technology has unveiled a hidden world of the ancient Maya in Guatemala, revealing a highly organized society with a ...

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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 ...

The discovery of the earliest known Maya Long Count calendar date on a crumbling stone monument in Campeche, Mexico, is shedding new light on how ancient Maya rulers used time to legitimize their ...

The discovery of a royal Maya tomb ranks among the most extraordinary achievements in modern archaeology. Hidden for centuries beneath temples and pyramids, these burials preserve remarkable evidence ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived in southeastern Mexico and northern Central America in the early 800s. A hundred years later ...

We are standing in a ravine in southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle. The temperature tops 100 degrees. Sonic waves of cicada song roll over us. Tropical birds squawk and screech incessantly. A few feet ...

Researchers used laser-guided imaging to uncover vast unexplored Maya settlements in Campeche, Mexico, revealing more than 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures, including a previously unknown large city with ...

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 ...

The ancient Maya civilisation exemplifies one of the most sophisticated preindustrial societies, characterised by intricate political hierarchies, economic specialisation and elaborate cultural ...