In his four-volume life’s work, scholar Ian S. MacLaren teases information from misinformation in the drawings, paintings and ...

A lawsuit filed in Mexico seeks personhood status for the Ring of Cenotes, a group of hundreds of subterranean lakes that ...

Those who travel to the Yucatán Peninsula will recognize the beautiful temple complexes and ruined cities of the Ancient Maya. Peaking in the Maya Classic Period of 250-900 CE, this civilization was ...

The three ages of Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 are too stale and restrictive. Gone are epic moments of triumph against an overwhelmingly superior enemy.

A ceramicist retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment that survived for over a millennium.

Civilization 6's Pangaea map has all civilizations share one massive supercontinent, and some leaders are better suited to ...

The results suggest the ancient fisheries were built between 2200 and 1900 B.C.E., before the rise of Maya civilization. The system’s age was a surprise, as researchers assumed it had been built ...

These fishing canals both speak to the industriousness of pre-Maya peoples, and show how they laid some of the foundation for civilization to flourish in ancient Mesoamerica. According to a new study ...

At the height of Maya civilization, people in this region built temples, roads, pyramids and other monuments. They also developed complex systems of writing, mathematics and astronomy. Scientists ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already ...