Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with ...

— -- Newly discovered wall writings found in Guatemala show the famed Maya culture's obsession with cycles of time. But they also show calendars that go well beyond 2012, the year when the ...

Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic systems.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...

Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the ...

Archaeologists scanning through jungle terrain stumbled on what could have once been an important Maya location. The team discovered a mysterious structure built under a ball court, popular in large ...

The modern study of Maya civilization owes much to Uaxactun in northern Guatemala. It was there in 1916 that Sylvanus Morley, an American archaeologist and erstwhile spy, rediscovered a ruined city ...

Paradise awaits at Iberostar Selection Paraíso Maya Suites, an environmentally friendly and action packed resort in gorgeous Riviera Maya. With summer vacation around the corner, you will want to keep ...

Asurint, a leading provider of background screening solutions, has been recognized as one of the top 100 U.S. companies to ...