Insights The world’s largest temples cover a variety of religions and beliefs.  Some of these temples have been around for ...

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

Their measurements indicated a total cave volume of 1.35 billion cubic feet (38.5 million cubic meters), which is spacious enough to fit nearly 15 Great Pyramids of Giza. But researchers recently ...

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 ...

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with stepped temple pyramids to rival Chichén Itzá, Río Bec, and Tikal.

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with stepped temple pyramids to rival Chichén Itzá, Río Bec, and Tikal.

even millions of inhabitants lived in collections of sophisticated settlements centered around keystone structures like the pyramid in Tikal or Tulum. But doctoral student Luke Auld-Thomas and ...

Valeriana’s pyramid and observational platform belong ... like Chichén Itzá or Tikal. In this way, the hidden city can “provide a really wonderful natural laboratory for how one society ...

Named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon, the ancient metropolis was brought to light through advanced lidar technology, revealing 6,674 new structures—including pyramids reminiscent of ...

There are no pictures of the newly-discovered city, but its pyramid temples are described as similar to this structure in nearby Calakmul Wikimedia commons Archaeologists have discovered a vast ...

Another revolves around who built one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the three gigantic Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Nick Kyrgios believes in some of the world’s biggest conspiracy theories.