Officials have acknowledged the environmental damage caused by Tren Maya, and say they’re exploring ways to restore cenotes ...

A sprawling Maya city hidden for centuries beneath thick jungle in southeastern Mexico has been uncovered by accident, ...

though a substantial city-state, could have laid low the mighty Tikal. Other stelae at Caracol suggest that the key to its triumph was an alliance with Calakmul, another Maya powerhouse in present ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

(Image Courtesy of Brown University) A buried ancient altar at the center of the Maya city of Tikal points to the tensions between the Maya and their neighbors in the late 300s C.E. According to a new ...