Te K’ab Chaak was the first dynastic leader of the Maya region of Caracol. Even after the king died, his dynasty last another ...

Long before the Maya and the Inca, an ancient civilization thrived in the Americas. The Sacred City of Caral is believed to ...

The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

The Maya civilization emerged circa 2000 BCE, and for centuries they ruled over an extensive territory in Central America.

Born in the depths of Central American tropical jungles, the Mayan civilization achieved great accomplishments in areas such as science, agriculture, culture and art, as well as in several other ...

The ancient Maya civilization was never truly lost, but many settlements were abandoned (sometime in the 10th century) due to a combination of warfare, over-population and intense climatic change.

AT a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on October 24, an address on "The Maya Civilization of Yucatan"was given by Dr. Douglas Guthrie, of the Department of the History of Medicine ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of the Maya king who founded the city of Caracol in what is now Belize.

A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...