Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

Researchers excavating the ancient Mayan city of Dzibanche ... which would have previously held a sculpture. Markings seem to indicate a specific Kaanu’l ruler, though researchers remain ...

Genius or madman? A new exhibition may help you decide An exhibition of ancient Maya art points up the opulence and violence of the great Mesoamerican civilization A new exhibit showcases the ...

The ancient Maya possessed many techniques for using their skin as a canvas on which to project information about their social role and status. One of the most common of these was body painting ...

(image by report authors, courtesy Tulane University) Researchers believe it could be the second-densest known ancient Maya site in that ... Unlike many in the art world, we are not beholden ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our ...

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt ...

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 ...

an ancient Maya site in Honduras, today. In 2023, Carlos Rodriguez-Navarro, a mineralogist at the University of Granada in Spain set out to discover how the ornate lime-plaster covered sculptures ...