Archaeology bombshell: Mayan 'secrets' uncovered in ancient ‘treasure map’ of Guatemala ARCHAEOLOGISTS were able to get an incredible insight into the "secrets of the ancient world" by ...

How a public map helped an archaeologist to discover ancient Mayan ruins. Takeshi Inomata used a lidar map, which uses light detection and ranging, to find 27 previously unknown Maya ceremonial sites.

Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough. ... It will eventually map more than 5,000 sq miles (14,000 sq km) ...

TIKAL NATIONAL PARK, Guatemala — The woman in the shorts shrieked, grabbed her ankle and crumpled to the ground as though she’d been shot. And in a sense she had. “A bullet ant,” surmised ...

A recent NPR-National Geographic Radio Expedition to Guatemala focused on efforts to save ancient Mayan sites from tomb looters. Weekend Edition's Peter Breslow reads us a page from his producer's ...

I’m fascinated by the Mayan civilization and its monumental architecture, artwork and culture and have visited ancient Mayan sites throughout Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. Some sites are ...

As our bus slowed at the entrance to a huge jungle park containing the Maya ruins of Tikal, one of Guatemala`s most spectacular attractions for tourists and archeologists, a small group of soldiers… ...

Scuba divers are exploring the depths of a volcanic lake in Guatemala to find clues about an ancient sacred island where Mayan pilgrims flocked to worship before it was submerged by rising waters.