The city spans an area similar in size to Beijing, signalling its role as a likely political ... Mexico-Guatemala border.

The settlement, named Valeriana after a nearby freshwater lagoon, has all the characteristics of a classic Maya political ...

Migrant-smuggling has become a top income stream for criminal groups in Latin America but for years the U.S. government did little to dismantle these networks.

An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.

Mexico’s National Institute said about 6,479 structures have been detected in LiDAR images covering an area of about 47 square miles (122 square kilometers). The technique maps landscapes using ...

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with ...

Asian Pacific Islander candidates are running against Latino opponents in districts that take in all or portions of the ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

Voters are gearing up to head to the polls to cast their ballots for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in one of the ...

The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

Using advanced scanning technology, researchers have located a major Maya site in the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán ...