A team of archaeologists working near the small village of Poxilá, roughly 50 miles south of Mérida in Mexico’s Yucatán state ...

Somewhere beneath the scrubby limestone terrain of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a team of archaeologists has uncovered what ...

Mexican archaeologists have registered a sprawling ancient Maya city in southern Quintana Roo after local residents flagged ...

The Maya civilization flourished more than 1,000 years ago, but modern technology is only now revealing the secrets of this ancient Mexican and Central American culture—and it’s happening at an ...

HOUSTON — University of Houston archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak, the first ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol in Belize, Central America. The discovery represents the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Maya urn featuring a depiction ...

QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO—Riviera Maya News reports that two stucco benches discovered last year in the Yucatán Peninsula, near the Chakanbakán Archaeological Zone, have been restored by researchers from ...

Researchers in Belize discovered what may be the tomb of Caracol’s first dynastic leader, Te K’ab Chaak. Previous excavations at Caracol revealed two more burial sites, both dating back to a similar ...

As an archaeologist working in Western North Carolina, I worry when I read about proposals for large developments near rivers. For the past 10 years, my research has focused on documenting ancestral ...

During FITUR Madrid last week, Iran Gómez, the Tourism Director of the town of Bacalar (state of Quintana Roo / Mexican Caribbean), mentioned that Ichkabal, an archaeological site surpassing Chichén ...