This article was originally published with the title “ Underwater Archaeology in the Maya Highlands ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 200 No. 3 (March 1959), p. 100 doi:10.1038 ...

"Archeologists have mapped more Mayan sites, buildings and features in the past 10 years than we had in the past — preceding — 150 years," Brett Houk, an archaeology professor at Texas Tech ...

The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

A German tourist was escorted from an archaeological complex when he climbed and attempted to evade security at a Mayan ...

The ancient Maya, whose world was one of vivid cultural ... While few items of clothing and ornamentation have been preserved in the archaeological record, scholars use depictions on painted ...

500 years later, Palenque—one of the most visited archaeological sites in Mexico—is a modern wellspring from which researchers have drawn some of the most detailed information about Maya culture.

Kristin Braswell The Tulum Archaeological site is one of the most visited Mayan archaeological sites along the Riviera Maya. Sitting on a patch of rocky coastline just east of Tulum's downtown ...

The incident was captured on video by a visitor who filmed the man as he raced up the steps of the Temple of Kukulcán at ...

Climbing the temple of Kukulkán has been banned since 2008 to protect its structure and cultural significance, as per INAH's ...

Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeology Congress. 2014 A Tale of Two Mayan Babels: Vernacular Histories of the Maya and the Limits of Inclusion. Ethnohistory 61(4): 761 – 784. 2014 Even the ...

One hundread years later, Mayan archaeology had made enormous advances, although the inscriptions that adorn the Mayan ruins had not been completely decyphered. It would be the extraordinary ...