An international team of archaeologists discovered an ancient Mayan city in a northeastern area of Guatemala known for its ...

Ancient DNA reveals how Mayan civilisation collapsed - Maya civilisation population decreased vastly during late Classic ...

The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

Ancient Maya burials, once thought to show human sacrifice, may instead reflect ancestral ties, according to a theory by Dr.

Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

so possibly ancient people saw this as a type of resurrection.” (Who were the Maya? Decoding the ancient civilization’s secrets.) One of Belize’s more popular cave experiences is Actun ...

The rise of the renowned ancient Mayan civilisation of Mexico and central America was fuelled by contact with outsiders, as ...

Belize, and El Salvador, with the ancient Maya city of Caracol estimated to have housed 100,000 people in the year 700 A.D. The complexity of the ancient Maya culture, however, has only been ...

More information: W.James Stemp et al, Two ancient Maya tattooing tools from Actun Uayazba Kab, Roaring Creek Valley, Belize, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.

A pair of chert points found alongside human skeletons in a cave in Belize may represent the first known tattooing needles ever discovered from a site linked to the ancient Maya civilization.

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living ... to map 108 kilometers of ancient channels that zigzag across 42 square kilometers of wetland in Belize’s Crooked Tree Wildlife ...