In this video I’m going to talk about how an 11 year old forest monitoring project which resulted in a Lidar survey, led to ...

Encircled by thick jungle, Palenque is one of the most impressive and mysterious of all Mexico’s ancient Maya sites. Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created ... the researchers were able to create a nearly complete picture of ancient ruins hidden ...

One of the many things the ancient Maya are remembered for is their ... The court is one of the smallest in Maya history. Image caption, This is the ‘Great Maya ball court’ in Chichén Itzá.

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

apparently by the Maya themselves, as if they’d wanted to erase the history it depicted. Hoping to understand why, Estrada-Belli tunneled into several nearby pyramids. Ancient Mesoamericans ...

Ancient Maya communities lived at X’baatún beginning ... Much of the settlement’s history remains unknown, but archaeologists hope to learn more as the project continues.

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

Researchers have long known that Mayan ... number of ancient people. Needless to say, this is a pretty important discovery for archaeologists interested in Mayan culture and history, but it ...

Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient ... the Maya ruins within its nature preserve, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said ...