Deep in the jungles of northern Guatemala, the ancient Maya city of El Mirador contains La Danta, a monumental pyramid complex considered one of the largest in the world by volume. A group of ...

While driving the backroads of Quintana Roo near the ancient city of Dzibanche, explorer Luke Caverns spots a cluster of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have uncovered over 6,500 previously unknown Maya structures, including a hidden city with grand pyramids, within ...

Two Tulane researchers, Marcello A. Canuto and Francisco Estrada-Belli, were part of a team of researchers, including assistant professor of anthropology Thomas Garrison at Ithaca College and other ...

Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico, revealing 6,674 undiscovered Maya structures, including pyramids like those at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lidar-created image showing the site with the ball court where parts of an underground structure were found. | Credit: ...

During road construction in Kohunlich, archaeologists and workers found seven ancient structures once used by elite Maya families, photos show. Photo from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology ...

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It's not every day that modern researchers uncover an ancient lost city. But for a network of scientists exploring Mexico's central Yucatan Peninsula, that very phenomenon is becoming so common that ...

An international team of researchers conducted a genetic analysis of 430 human skeletal and tooth samples retrieved from ...