The ancient Maya controlled vast swaths of territory from southern Mexico down into Central America for thousands of years. Famous kingdoms like Tikal, Mayapan and others spread throughout Mesoamerica ...

This renewed recognition of ancient agricultural techniques is part of a broader movement by the Indigenous Maya people to reclaim their past and find their place in modern Guatemala.

The traces of ancient corn farms could reveal how many people lived in a legendary Maya city, a new study suggests. The pyramid-filled Maya site of Tikal in Guatemala is one of the largest ...

Find out which foods the ancient Maya grew and the importance of their calendars in farming with this year 3/4 BBC Bitesize primary history guide.

The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche -- a sprawling, urban settlement replete with ...

More Mayan sites have been found in the last 10 years than in the preceding 150. Here's how space technology is helping archaeologists uncover ancient ruins.

A massive Maya landscape has been hiding under a forested area of southern Mexico. The newfound city, dubbed Valeriana, spans an area roughly the size of Beijing and has “all the hallmarks of a ...

Laser imaging of the rainforests of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula have turned up thousands of ancient Maya structures — and an entire previously unknown city, a new study has found. By flying ...

Item 1 of 2 A Lidar image shows what archeologists in Mexico say is a newly discovered lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche, Mexico, in this ...