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

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

Fairview, a town 30 miles north of Dallas, announced a Zoning Defense Fund this month to protect the town from potential ...

and temples filled with expressive bas-relief sculptures set Palenque apart from other Maya sites in Mexico, and it even rivals the grandeur of Tikal in modern-day Guatemala. Its secrets have been ...

Auld-Thomas saw an opportunity and decided to take a shot. He and his colleagues from Tulane University and Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History re-processed the 2013 lidar data ...

Over the past two decades, I've made various trips to countries like Georgia, Colombia, India, and Palestine, more often than ...

Researchers working in the city of Dzibanche in the Yucatan peninsula have found three Mayan reliefs dating back roughly ...

YEPOCA/SAN JUAN LA LAGUNA, Guatemala, - T he journey of Rossanna and Widman began in the Guatemalan village of San Juan La Laguna, on the turquoise Lake Atitlan, where they met when he bought the ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church, announced plans recently for its first temple in New Jersey. But the project proposed for Summit, in Union ...

Trap shooter Adriana Ruano Oliva of Guatemala poses with her gold medal at Paris Olympics. (REUTERS) Little wonder then that the trap shooter uses words such as “blessing” and “grateful ...

25. In May through July, at least four Hindu and Buddhist temples in the Twin Cities were burglarized. Two men have been charged in connection to those burglaries and others in a sprawling case ...

This year, experts, photographers, and editors from the magazine selected the most exciting destinations for the upcoming ...