A bird's-eye-view of South America's Yucatán Peninsula has revealed a massive 4,000-year-old fishery in Belize's largest ...

The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary ...

Mexico’s bishops have issued a statement clarifying that there is no such thing as an approved "Mayan rite" of the Mass.

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The discovery of complex fish trapping networks from 4,000 years ago hint at how the Maya rose up as a civilization in ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian ...

Dedicate an hour or two to wander among ancient sculptures and ceramics, revealing Maya beliefs, rituals, and everyday life.

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s ...

Archaeologists working in Central America have discovered a series of fishing-catching canals made by pre-Columbian Mayan ...