The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador for thousands of years. Emerging around ...

Considering how monolithic Egyptian pyramids tend to look ... that wasn’t the extent of Mayan cultural expression. After all, this stucco frieze on the Temple of Kukulkan in the Mayan city of Mayapan ...

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Climbing the Mayan civilisation’s ancient pyramids is banned, both to respect the structures and from fear of damaging them. But that didn’t stop two tourists from launching themselves to the ...

The man was one of two separate visitors filmed climbing the pyramid on Thursday, as approximately 9,000 tourists flocked to the temple – referred to as El Castillo – to observe the spring ...

Myth: Pyramids existing independently in different prehistoric societies is evidence of a common culture From Mayan pyramids in Central America to Angkor Wat in Cambodia, many disparate ancient ...

A German tourist was escorted from an archaeological complex when he climbed and attempted to evade security at a Mayan ...

Now, a second excavation, this one carried out in 2022 on top of the ancient pyramid at San Isidro in ... known as the Middle Preclassic when nearby Mayan culture was rapidly changing and becoming ...

Archaeologists in the Judean Desert have unearthed a “mysterious pyramid-shaped structure” dating back 2,200 years. The evacuation was a joint mission between the Israel Antiquities Authority ...

Pair this with a dried-up Nile branch for stone transport, and the pyramids' story feels less like history-and more like a sci-fi epic waiting to be decoded.

Italian researchers, led by Prof. Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa, say they’ve uncovered a vast underground network beneath the Egyptian pyramids. They claim the radar images show ...