A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in ...

The city features all the hallmarks of a Maya political capital: pyramids, plazas connected by broad causeways, a ballcourt, ...

Researchers believe that the city’s eventual abandonment may have been triggered by a combination of environmental and social ...

A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under the jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and ...

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with stepped temple pyramids to rival Chichén Itzá, Río Bec, and Tikal.

The Teenager and the Lost Maya City, a documentary from The Nature of Things, follows Gadoury on the adventure of a lifetime: a journey to Mexico to find out if he’s right. Gadoury first became ...

A massive Maya city, named Valeriana, has been identified beneath a dense forest in southern Mexico. The city spans an area similar in size to Beijing, signalling its role as a likely political ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá, in the sparse shade of a tropical tree, a voice ricochets wildly up the mouth of a well. “¡Lo vi! ¡Lo vi!” ...

But part of that region is blank no longer. Archaeologists have found thousands of never-before-seen Maya structures as well as a large city that they named Valeriana after a nearby lagoon ...

Palenque's wealth of epigraphy (inscriptions) and recorded history has helped archaeologists to build the first time line of rulers of a Maya city—one that, while impressive, is still fuzzy in ...

Archaeologists located a number of buildings including this one with stone steps Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered the remains of an ancient Maya city deep in the jungle of the Yucatán ...

Researchers working in Guatemala have discovered high levels of mercury contamination at the ancient Maya city of Ucanal, 280km north-east of Guatemala City. Identified in soil samples taken from ...