While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — ...

Little by little researchers are unraveling the mysteries of the Maya culture of Central America ... However, it was put there by people from another civilization whose homeland was some 630 ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived ... unearths remnants of a civilization of warriors, artists, and kings that still feels ...

When most people think of ancient Maya civilization, they imagine godlike kings building towering pyramids and reveling in bloody human sacrifice. But commoners also played a significant role in the ...

filled with hidden ruins that Hansen and others refer to as “the cradle of Maya civilization.” We zipped away from the town of Flores at 140 knots. Off to the east were the spectacular Maya ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...

The altar reveals the presence of powerful rulers from Teotihuacan who were there at a time when a coup ousted Tikal’s Maya ...