A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...

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An international team of archaeologists reports the discovery of a previously unknown Maya city hidden beneath a millennium ...

On June 22, 2026, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of Minanbé — an intact, ...

Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar ...

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On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know ...

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 ...

From a buried colossal head unearthed by a farm worker in 1850s Veracruz to the towering pre-Classic pyramids of El Mirador, ...

Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city. Auld-Thomas’ work helped locate an estimated 6,600 buildings only 15 minutes from a current ...

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, ...

Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America's Yucatan peninsula. "The aerial imagery was crucial to identify this really ...