Farming was at the centre of ancient Maya life. But these people are also remembered for other amazing creations, like their spectacular buildings and beautiful objects made from jade, a rare and ...

The ancient city of Chichen Itza is said to have ... and the gods and goddesses have had a big impact on the Mayan people and their way of life. Studying these gods and goddesses helps us ...

Deep among Guatemala's northern rainforests is the Tikal complex of Mayan ruins. A Mayan city known as Yax Mutal, the capital ...

It begins to help us imagine how people thought about their daily lives, about how they made choices.” The new findings differ from what was found when other ancient Maya regions were examined with ...

"People are excited about it," she said ... scenario," said archaeologist Kathryn Reese-Taylor, "not the ancient Maya." How the end would come Those who believe the world will end this year ...

The cave is filled with hundreds of monumental relics from the ancient Mayan civilisation ... is studded with monumental relics of the Maya people, whose cities drew upon an extensive network ...

A new book takes readers on a guided tour of Maya history as narrated by an anthropologist who has spent more than 35 years salvaging and exploring the remains of ancient Maya cities, farms and sacred ...

Auld-Thomas's adviser, Tulane professor Marcello Canuto, said the extensive data they collected will "allow us to tell better stories of the ancient Mayan people," marrying what scientists already ...

How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an ...

Photo from Xavier Sicart Chavarría via INAH Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s ...