Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by ...

A roughly 3,000-year-old site in Mexico was built in the shape of a cosmogram that stretches for miles, a new study suggests.

Archaeologists uncover a massive Maya monument in Mexico, challenging long-held beliefs about ancient power and early ...

A monumental complex built by the Maya around 3,000 years ago was modeled on a map of the cosmos, new fieldwork has revealed.

In the summer of 2020, an international team led by a University of Arizona archaeologist reported the discovery of the ...

According to the rumor, Israeli forces left behind explosives disguised as "teddy bears, dolls and colorful balls" to attract ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at ...

Scholars have long known the Classic Maya (300-900 C.E.) were astronomers. Their pyramids at sites like Tikal and Chichen ...

After voters swung toward Republican Donald Trump during last fall’s presidential election, states like Virginia and New ...

The written word has always been fragile. Paper burns, scrolls decay, and ink fades under the weight of time. But what makes ...