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 ...

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 ...

Calakmul, Tikal, Copán, Cobá and Chichen Itza. Each city had different kings and queens. Within each Maya region, the Maya cleared vast areas of rainforest to make way for their cities and farms.

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 ...

The likely sacrificed human remains and its craftsmanship tells the story of a major conflict between a Maya city-state and a powerful rival. The findings are detailed in a study published April 8 ...

The enormous city-state of Tikal, whose towering temples still stand in the jungle, battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for dominance of the Maya world. Far to the north in Mexico ...