Researchers believe that the city’s eventual abandonment may have been triggered by a combination of environmental and social ...

The city features all the hallmarks of a Maya political capital: pyramids, plazas connected by broad causeways, a ballcourt, ...

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with stepped temple pyramids to rival Chichén Itzá, Río Bec, and Tikal.

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

But part of that region is blank no longer. Archaeologists have found thousands of never-before-seen Maya structures as well as a large city that they named Valeriana after a nearby lagoon ...

A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under the jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá, in the sparse shade of a tropical tree, a voice ricochets wildly up the mouth of a well. “¡Lo vi! ¡Lo vi!” ...

An extravagantly decorated ‘tiny house’ discovered in Pompeii The lost city has “all the hallmarks of a Classic Maya political capital”, Mr Auld-Thomas noted. “We did not just find rural ...

Archaeologists located a number of buildings including this one with stone steps Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered the remains of an ancient Maya city deep in the jungle of the Yucatán ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will open the long-delayed final segment of the Maya Train project on Dec. 15, she said ...

The Teenager and the Lost Maya City, a documentary from The Nature of Things, follows Gadoury on the adventure of a lifetime: a journey to Mexico to find out if he’s right. Gadoury first became ...