Long before the great Classic Maya cities rose from the jungle, a forgotten world of colossal monuments, towering pyramids, and rival chiefdoms was already shaping the foundations of Mesoamerican ...

New research suggests that explanations based only on climate may not fully account for the major decline of the lowland ...

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 ...

Until recently, Mayan script was indecipherable. David Stuart was one of the few who helped to crack it.

A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olmec culture deeply shaped later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images An ...

LOS ANGELES -- 250 ancient artifacts from the Mayan Civilization are on display in the US for the first time at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. "The Mayans have lived in Southern Mexico, ...

In Maya civilization that occurred around 2000 BC and survived until the 16 th century, coins and bills such as bank notes did not circulate. Instead, like many other ancient civilizations, it is ...

With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has ...

With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has ...