Evidence of a mysterious Mayan city has been uncovered in Guatemala, a Central American country south of Mexico.

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Maya city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

An international team of researchers sequenced the genomes of seven individuals who lived in the ancient Maya city of Copán, ...

Ancient Maya burials, once thought to show human sacrifice, may instead reflect ancestral ties, according to a theory by Dr.

Is your knowledge of the ancient Maya as extraordinary as their pyramids?

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

Cueva de Sangre, or the 'Blood Cave', has proved fascinating for researchers for decades.