Belize is an adventure destination known for its great diving spots, waterfalls, Mayan ruins, and caves just begging to ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a 2,900-year-old factory that produced Tyrian purple dye — a luxurious commodity for ...

The Temple of Kukulkan In late February this year, I set foot on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to explore the ancient Maya city ...

A family altar in the Maya city of Tikal offers a glimpse into ... a nose bar and spool-shaped ear jewelry (picture a fancy ancient version of modern earlobe plugs). Proyecto Arqueológico del ...

A mysterious liquid forms an urn-like shape in lab experiments. Credit: Arbyreed / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A UMass Amherst graduate student may have accidentally created a mysterious liquid that defies ...

I feel like my early history education was basically like "a bunch of tribes who ate buffalo and occasionally scratched things on rocks here, Aztecs here, Maya here, Inka there, where did they go ...

Here, in the heart of the ancient Maya site of Tikal, stood an altar built and painted in the style of Teotihuacan, the far-off metropolis in central Mexico. This altar may be the clearest ...

The altar was likely painted not by a Maya artist, but by an artisan from Teotihuacan, an ancient megalopolis located more than 600 miles (965 kilometers) away, outside present-day Mexico City.

In 2008, Australian researchers discovered that ancient Mayan temple builders used mica-infused plaster to make their temples gleam in the sunlight. The Mayans added mica to make their temples ...

The Guatemalan government announced the discovery of an ancient Teotihuacan altar in Tikal National Park, shedding new light on the interactions between the Teotihuacan and Mayan cultures ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...