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These findings offer valuable insights into human history, population dynamics, and the eventual collapse of the Classic Maya ...

It might be known as ‘The Jewel’, a nickname that reflects its rich cultural heritage and natural beauty, but Belize is not on the main Caribbean tourist trail just yet. Fuel your wanderlust with our ...

Evidence of a mysterious Mayan city has been uncovered in Guatemala, a Central American country south of Mexico.

Archaeologists have uncovered a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city deep in Guatemala's northern jungle, revealing pyramids, ...

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.

It was just the latest of several studies to map a clearer, more complex picture of the Maya. Auld-Thomas found ... America," studying "the language and history of the founder of Central America ...

When, in the 1960s, the hieroglyphs—the most sophisticated writing system created in the New World—were at last beginning to be deciphered, a new picture ... period of Maya history, from ...

BELIZE CITY - A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities ...

There are hundreds of caves in Belize that ... a Q’eqchi’ Maya tour guide for The Lodge at Chaa Creek, says visiting Xibalba is key to understanding ancient Maya and their history.

Belize, and Guatemala around 1,500 years ago. The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported the discovery of three Maya frescoes during rescue work at the site, which ...

For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient human history ... in the Maya Lowlands, an area spanning what is now Belize, El Salvador ...