The movements of all major planets visible to the ancient Mayans fit into this extended calendar. The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research ...

A team of archaeologists has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize. A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the ...

Before the ancient Mayans dominated what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, their predecessors constructed a network of fishing canals. Thank You (23 millions+) views, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team ...

Researchers believe that sacrifices buried at Chichén Itzá could have been mirroring these ancient stories in terms of their subjects. Past assumptions that Mayan culture preferred female ...

Archaeologists, with the help of drones and Google Earth imagery, have discovered 4,000-year-old canals in Belize that were once used by the predecessors of the ancient Mayans to catch freshwater ...

Scholars show how multiple planet movements tie into the 819-day Mayan calendar. The 819 days of the calendar must be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. The movements of all ...

WASHINGTON — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery ...

Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists ...