Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from ...

The ancient Maya started building their storied cities amid a construction boom in Central America as early as 1000 B.C., ... More than 6 million Maya people still live in Central America.

Genomes from ancient Maya people reveal collapse of population and civilization 1,200 years ago. Mysterious Tikal altar that wasn't Maya after all includes at least 4 skeletons — and 1 was a child.

They were likely taking it to be sold in markets in the cities, while the people in the cities were making other choices with their time," Golden said. "It begins to help us imagine how people thought ...

The ancient Maya were a group of Mesoamerican Indigenous people who developed one of the most advanced societies in history, which such achievements as a complex written language and amazingly ...

In the Popol Vuh, a collection of sacred texts of the ancient Maya people, floods play an important role. According to the myth, the void of creation was filled by a flood from where then the ...

An ancient Maya city might seem an unlikely place for people to be experimenting with proprietary chemicals. But scientists think that’s exactly what happened at Copán, an archaeological ...

Speaking Ancient Maya. Posted March 1, 2008. DAVID LEVIN: You're listening to a NOVA podcast. BARBARA MACLEOD: tzik haab: bolon pik, lajchan winikhaab, cha'tuun, mih winal, waklajun k'ii ...

Images of shark-like monsters appear in Maya cities throughout the regions known today as Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala—even deep in the continent's interior, where people never saw the ocean.

Genomes from ancient Maya people reveal collapse of population and civilization 1,200 years ago For decades, scientists tried to decode the precise method of manufacturing Maya blue, but they did ...

Archaeologists examined the remains of houses in ancient Maya cities and compared them with other Mesoamerican societies; they found that the societies with the most wealth inequality were also ...