Swap the snow for sand and celebrate Christmas and New Year’s in Cancún with cultural traditions, beachfront festivities and ...

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 ...

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

The biggest puzzle of all is what caused the apparently peaceful and well-organized Indus civilization to collapse over the ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

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.

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with ...

News. A man pretended to be his dead mother to collect her pension: the real Mrs. Doubtfire News. Earthquake in archaeology: a new study suggests that Neanderthals disappeared for a reason not ...

Astrologer Lisa Stardust shares her insights on the Mayan system and how it captures the energy you were born into Getty If you think your birth chart says a lot about you, wait until you meet your ...

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 ...