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

Archaeologists have collected data which indicates the presence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Discovered in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary (CTWS), the largest inland ...

This is Cecot — El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center — and the men are known as the “worst of the worst.” Mass murderers, drug dealers and gangsters, they are accused of once ...

A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries, has been discovered from the computer of a PhD student hundreds of miles away. This is the story of how he did it.

Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, an area spanning what is now Belize, El Salvador ... that numerous Maya ruins were hidden in Campeche since ...

Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, an area spanning what is now Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and southeastern ... and archaeologists had suspected that ...

Beyond it lie the ruins of an old Maya city, barely a 15-minute walk from the busy roadway but until now unknown to archaeologists, its secrets cloaked over the centuries by unchecked foliage.

“For the longest time, our sample of the Maya civilisation was a couple of hundred square ... near a town where people have been actively farming among the ruins for years. The government never knew ...

An ancient Mayan city buried for centuries in Mexico’s jungles was recently discovered by a Tulane University graduate student examining old land survey data. Luke Auld-Thomas, a Ph.D. student at ...

The newly described city, named Valeriana, features a crowded urban landscape and rural fringes that surpass any known Maya cities found in Belize or ... known there are ruins here.

Speaking with Yahoo News, he recalled the exact moment in 2018 he found the Maya city that had been lost ... of archeologists to locate forgotten ruins in hard-to-reach locations.