A trio of ancient reservoirs in present-day Guatemala is revealing both the strength—and limitations—of Mayan water science.

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 ...

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, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...

Investigating ice from 1,200 years ago is a discovery that might explain why the Mayan civilisation mysteriously disappeared ...

This photo released by the Guatemalan government shows two anthropomorphic sculptures that "represent an ancestral couple." - Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and Sports Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory ...

The discovery, made in Quintana Roo of the Yucatan Peninsula, highlights the significance of beekeeping in Mayan culture. Archaeologists also found that these activities were more widespread than they ...

(CN) — For over a century, scholars have puzzled over the eclipse table in the Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving texts from the ancient Mayan civilization. Now, researchers John Justeson from ...