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

The Mayan civilization is one such iconic ancient mesoamerican civilization ... The Fountain takes us on a journey through multiple timelines with Tom Creo/Tomas Verde/ Tommy the Space Traveler (Hugh ...

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts is exactly that kind of revelation – a riverside village where the Deerfield River flows gently and the pace of life moves with a refreshing deliberateness that feels ...

Scientists studied the genetic makeup of seven Maya individuals—including one who was the victim of human sacrifice.

A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...

While DNA has been recovered from other Maya sites before, this is the most detailed genetic snapshot ever taken of individuals who lived in one of the civilization’s most iconic cities.

of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the Classic Maya period (A.D. 250 to 900) of Copán in what is now western Honduras showed that the population dramatically ...

Experts at the Guatemalan Ministry of Culture say it was inhabited by the Maya, the ancient civilization of indigenous people in Central America. The presence of pyramids and monuments suggest ...

Archaeologists unearthed a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala — complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments — that reveals new traces of the ancient civilization. The ancient ...

The modern study of Maya civilization owes much to Uaxactun in northern Guatemala. It was there in 1916 that Sylvanus Morley, an American archaeologist and erstwhile spy, rediscovered a ruined ...