Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably well ...

Many ancient Mayan city ruins across Central America are ... much about the way the Maya understood subjects like astronomy, religion, language, and medicine, they contain only a tiny fraction ...

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 ...

It was used to paint pottery, sculptures, murals, jewellery, clothing, altars and, chillingly, the human beings the ancient Maya offered to their gods, to garner favour. According to Spanish ...

The movements of all major planets visible to the ancient Mayans fit into this extended calendar. The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research ...

Here’s how it works. A vast array of ancient fish-trapping facilities created by the direct ancestors of the Maya has been discovered in Belize. The facilities were capable of capturing enough ...

WASHINGTON — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery ...

Known as Hiix Witz, or ‘Jaguar Hill’ in ancient Maya times, this site features prominently in the history of famous Maya ... archaeological method and theory, and the archaeology of religion. In the ...

From nationalist ancient bread and unearthed cities to protecting cultural heritage, archaeologists brought a wealth of ...

Have archaeologists already discovered all of the major ancient Maya monuments—or is there still much more to be found? That question has divided experts for some time. But a new study in ...

Industries including pig farms are polluting these sinkhole lakes, sacred to Indigenous Mayans. (AP Video by Teresa de Miguel) A man looks down from a bridge into the Santa Cruz cenote in Homun, ...