Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World Heritage site, the ruins of Palenque lie in the lush basin of the Usumacinta River in the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

This is the ancient city of Tikal. 1300 years ago it would have been called 'Yax Mutal' and was home to thousands of Maya people. Image caption, This is the Temple of the Great Jaguar. It's called ...

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 ...

An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., entitled "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," highlighted the ...

These and other questions involving the Maya people’s relation to their gods ... in the beliefs and world vision of the ancient Maya of Yucatán. Archaeologists had known that the Maya regarded ...

Related Stories Major discovery explains why the ancient Mayan civilization collapsed ... may have led to the unraveling of Maya society as people migrated to more sustainable regions.

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 ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest ... beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...