From the forgotten jungle city rediscovered in 1746 to the royal tomb that rewrote everything we thought we knew about Maya ...

David Stuart, leading scholar of the ancient Maya, shares insights from his expansive new book. Historian and archaeologist David Stuart ’89 will discuss his new publication, "The Four Heavens: A New ...

The collapse of the Maya civilization in the lowlands of Central America rests on a curious paradox. Between the years 750 ...

A new, immersive exhibit has arrived at the California Science Center — and it explores an ancient, bygone civilization. “Maya: The Exhibition,” which opened earlier this week and will run through ...

The surprising discovery of a 2,800-year-old monumental structure in Tabasco, Mexico, is shaking our conceptions of Maya civilization and its emergence as a cultural force. Using a technology called ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of Texas ...

Tourists explore the ‘Dome of the Cathedral’, the largest chamber in Grutas Tzabnah (Yucatán, Mexico), and the origin of Tzab06-1. The artificial well ‘La Noria’ now illuminates the cave. (Mark ...

A Mayan palace dating back more than 1,000 years was discovered by archaeologists in Mexico.The ruins were found in the Kuluba archaeological zone in the Mexican state of Yucatán, about 63 miles west ...

The ancient Maya appear to have engaged in extreme violent warfare long before previously thought, with evidence to suggest it attacked and burned down a prosperous city during the peak of the ...

Carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth's atmosphere have reached 415 parts per million—a level that last occurred more than three million years ago, long before the evolution of humans. This news adds ...