Step into the heart of the Belizean jungle to explore Lamanai, a remarkable ancient capital known as the "Submerged Crocodile" and one of the longest-continuously inhabited cities in the Maya world.

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Nowadays, the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala, have been largely reclaimed by the jungle. Howler monkeys jump from pyramid to pyramid. Bats hide in the crevices of abandoned ...

Excavations at Ucanal uncover ancient council houses in Guatemala, offering earliest evidence of collective Maya political ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Important archaeological sites often naturally reveal themselves after disasters like earthquakes and floods. However, it isn’t always that easy; ...

After more than four decades of work on the site, a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists with the University of Houston has uncovered remains of the first royal tomb at Caracol, a sprawling ancient ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of Lake Atitlán, a Maya city over 2,000 years old has just been formally identified by ...

A family altar in the Maya city of Tikal offers a glimpse into events in an enclave of the city’s foreign overlords in the wake of a local coup. Archaeologists recently unearthed the altar in a ...

A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries, has been discovered from the computer of a PhD student hundreds of miles away. This is the story of how he did it. The ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers excavated an ancient Maya complex that spanned three cities in Guatemala. Each city featured its own unique architectural advancement: an ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex ...