And if archaeology hadn't emerged in the 18th century, many of these civilizations would have become permanently lost to time ...

Scientists from the USA and Denmark have discovered Mayan tattooing tools in the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, shedding ...

Maya blue, discovered by modern researchers in 1931, is not an easy pigment to make. Echoing the color of an azure sky, the ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Lidar technology is revealing that the Mayan civilization was more complex and interconnected than previously thought.

Changing all that, the researchers announce the discovery of two “burin spalls” – or stone flakes – from a site called Actun ...

The impact that other civilizations have had on the Maya is just beginning to be understood, researchers say. Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization’s abrupt ...

The altar—and the wealthy household behind the courtyard it once adorned—stands just a few blocks from the center of Tikal, one of the most powerful cities of Maya civilization. But the altar ...

A Sherlock Holmes-style investigation has revealed the ancient method for the stunning pigment known as Maya blue — and it's different from a previous method uncovered nearly 20 years ago by the ...

More than just revealing lost cities, these findings challenge a long-held belief that the Maya civilization was composed mainly of small, isolated villages. Lidar has instead uncovered a vast ...