Archaeologists uncover the earliest known Maya salt works in Belize, revealing insights into ancient salt production and ...

Using lidar technology, researchers surveyed 50 square miles of Campeche, Mexico, discovering an entire previously unknown ...

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of ...

The Maya civilization emerged circa 2000 BCE, and for centuries they ruled over an extensive territory in Central America.

A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...

Tulane researchers uncovered over 6,500 Maya structures in Mexico using lidar, revealing a complex settlement landscape and challenging previous assumptions about the Maya civilization’s urban and ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

The city spans an area similar in size to Beijing, signalling its role as a likely political center of the Maya civilization ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

In a speech delivered at the Peruvian Congress on Nov. 21, 2016, Xi expressed his admiration for the Inca civilization, praising the magnificence of Machu Picchu, the mesmerizing Nazca Lines, and the ...