But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...

Ilopango explosion happened during Maya Early Classic Period ... materials than Mount Vesuvius eruption The timeline of eruption that devastated the ancient Mayans, in what is now known as El ...

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

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

The sediment under a lake in Mexico contains some of the long-sought answers to the mystery of the Mayan demise. Ancient Mayans ... were among the most advanced civilizations of their time.

The textbook timeline of the Maya civilization goes like this ... that can see through dense jungle and reveal the locations of ancient towns and cities. Next, they surveyed 30 percent of this ...

The Maya civilization flourished more than 1,000 years ago, but modern technology is only now revealing the secrets of this ancient Mexican ... for the archaeological timeline, LiDAR does for ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of ...

built just before the Maya civilization rose to prominence. Harrison-Buck and her fellow archeologists used drones and Google Earth data to map 108 kilometers of ancient channels that zigzag ...

"Dirt analysis may not be as sexy as digging up a jade mask from a former Maya king, but now we can answer more questions about the regular people that made up this ancient civilization," study ...

The Maya built one of the most powerful empires in the world. The ancient Maya civilization conquered the territories of Belize, Guatemala, southeastern Mexico, and some regions of Honduras and El ...

Historians to rethink what they know of ancient Mayan civilization. Scientists in Guatemala have discovered "the first freeway system in the world," The Washington Post reports. In an interview ...