A sprawling Maya city with palaces and pyramids was discovered in a dense Mexican jungle by a doctoral student who unknowingly drove past the site years ago on a visit to Mexico. Tulane University ...

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with ...

MEXICO CITY: Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the ...

An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.

Archaeologists have revealed an ancient lost Mayan city using advanced laser mapping technology, unearthing monumental ...

The classical-era Maya civilization dates back to the period between 250 and 900 AD, when it extended its dominion over present-day southern Mexico and what are now Belize, El Salvador ...

However, archaeologists — who would not have been able to map such a large area without prior guidance — utilized this data to investigate what they considered to be an unexplored region. Although the ...

The classical-era Maya civilization dates back to the period between 250 and 900 AD, when it extended its dominion over present-day southern Mexico and what are now Belize, El Salvador ...

The Maya civilization thrived during the Classic Period (A.D. 250–900), and areas like the central Maya Lowlands—covering parts of Guatemala, Belize ... settlements. A map shows details ...

Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?