Deep inside the forested region of Campeche, researchers studying laser-based LiDAR data noticed shapes that did not match the surrounding natural land. The scans showed clean edges, elevated ...

The ancient town comes with pyramids, buildings, stone columns, and a ball field.

A sprawling Maya metropolis, hidden for centuries beneath dense tropical canopy, is coming into focus as archaeologists ...

Uxmal is one of the crown jewels of Puuc architecture, a style of Maya building that flourished in the Yucatán over 1,000 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Luke Auld-Thomas, Antiquity Publications Ltd; CC BY 4.0 Laser surveys have revealed a ...

This early history of the Maya peoples in Mesoamerica details the art and architecture of the Preclassic period, more than ...

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 ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery is shedding a new light on one of history’s biggest enigmas – the collapse of central America’s ancient Maya civilisation. This new discovery – the ritual ...

After more than four decades of work on the site, a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists with the University of Houston has uncovered remains of the first royal tomb at Caracol, a sprawling ancient ...