Newly published research shows just how pervasive mercury—an essential element in the red cinnabar pigment favoured by the ...

you get an astounding archaeological treasure largely to yourself. More than 20 years have passed since I trekked into the ...

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of Campeche.

It took Luke Auld-Thomas about 16 pages of trawling through Google before he stumbled across an obscure piece of mapping that ...

Only the massive Lowlands city of Calakmul, near the current Mexico-Guatemala border, was historically denser ... “This study showcases the value that lidar data can have to archaeology even when it ...

Homeland Security Investigations El Paso and U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued a 4-year-old girl from Guatemala and a baby ...

The lost city in the southeastern state of Campeche was once thought of as a “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, an area spanning what’s now Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and southeastern ...

Our archaeological research is focused on the Río Verde drainage ... and the Soconusco coast (i.e., the Pacific coast of southern Mexico and Guatemala). These regions were nuclei of innovation where ...

In 1177BC, Amurapi, the last king of Ugarit in modern-day Syria, wrote in cuneiform on baked clay to the Hittite emperor ...

Tropical Storm Sara has led to significant flooding in northern Honduras, threatening communities and infrastructure. The storm's impacts extend to tourist hotspots and key agricultural areas, while ...

The discovery also strongly suggests that far more evidence of urbanism could also be hidden in the central Maya Lowlands which ecompasses parts of present-day Guatemala, the Mexican states of ...

From its modest beginnings with rows of utilitarian housing blocks, Kiryat Menachem has been witness to Jerusalem’s urban ...