Every year, millions of tourists flock to Chichen Itza to marvel at the ancient architecture and learn about the Mayan culture. Sacrificial rituals were common at the famous site. Over the years, ...

A long-standing mystery surrounding the Mayan civilization's collapse has been solved. Scientists now believe a ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered crops and wealth as they raced their opponents around a cross-shaped board.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

A previously unknown ancient Mayan city was discovered deep in the jungles of the Balamku ecological reserve in Mexico, according to The New York Post. The Archaeology Council of the National ...

Age is a rite of passage marked in many cultures through ritual and rite. As one of the most intriguing societies in history, ...

Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during the ...

Underwater archaeology excavations in a Belize lagoon discovered ancient Mayan salt kitchens showing families working from home, study says. Photo from Louisiana State University Salt is a ...

Archaeologists, with the help of drones and Google Earth imagery, have discovered 4,000-year-old canals in Belize that were once used by the predecessors of the ancient Mayans to catch freshwater fish ...

Ancient Maya kings may have already told us how to tackle our water crisis, a new study has found. The Maya civilization dates back almost 4,000 years and spanned what is now Belize, Guatemala, ...

Salt is a dinner-table staple, a cupboard must-have, and a pop-culture slang. It’s a culinary and dietary necessity for people today just like it was for the ancient Mayans over a century ago. But, ...