Using advanced scanning technology, researchers have located a major Maya site in the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our ...

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

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...

A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

The city spans an area similar in size to Beijing, signalling its role as a likely political center of the Maya civilization ...

Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR data related to carbon monitoring to discover a lost Maya city. Auld-Thomas’ work helped locate an estimated 6,600 buildings only 15 minutes from a current ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

Tulane researchers uncovered over 6,500 Maya structures in Mexico using lidar, revealing a complex settlement landscape and challenging previous assumptions about the Maya civilization’s urban and ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.