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

Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political ...

Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic ...

Learn what caused a major population crash in the Maya civilization, driving several cities to fall into ruin.

Tepeyac in Mexico City each year, which is home to not one, but two basilicas dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Faced with a fiery debate between the glorious myth of the Conquest and anachronistic revisionism, historians are looking to ...

A mysterious formation in South America leaves visitors wondering whether this "Egyptian Sphinx" is a work of human hands or ...

Speech by Claudia Sheinbaum at the mass rally of 600,000 supporters in Mexico City on Saturday, December 6, marking the 7th ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...

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

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...