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

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 ...

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 ...

Deep within the Mexican jungle, archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably intact Maya city, named Minanbé, hidden for over a ...

Uxmal is one of the most spectacular archaeological sites in the Americas and is often considered the best-preserved Maya city in the Yucatán Peninsula. Renowned for its elegant architecture, ...

Drawing upon 25 years of research, Andrew Scherer, professor of anthropology and archaeology and the ancient world and director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, ...

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 ...

Researchers in Belize discovered what may be the tomb of Caracol’s first dynastic leader, Te K’ab Chaak. Previous excavations at Caracol revealed two more burial sites, both dating back to a similar ...