Madison is a freelance science reporter and full-time fact-checker based in the wild Rocky Mountains of western Montana. Madison is a freelance science reporter and full-time fact-checker based in the ...

A team of archaeologists working near the small village of Poxilá, roughly 50 miles south of Mérida in Mexico’s Yucatán state ...

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Mexican archaeologists have registered a sprawling ancient Maya city in southern Quintana Roo after local residents flagged ...

The surprising discovery of a 2,800-year-old monumental structure in Tabasco, Mexico, is shaking our conceptions of Maya civilization and its emergence as a cultural force. Using a technology called ...

Twice a year, tens of thousands of visitors crowd the base of El Castillo at Chichen Itza to watch triangles of sunlight ...

The Maya civilization flourished more than 1,000 years ago, but modern technology is only now revealing the secrets of this ancient Mexican and Central American culture—and it’s happening at an ...

The height of the Maya kingdom, which stretched from 250 to 900 AD, included the rise of the Maya Ballgame, sometimes called pitz, and its ball court structures in the center of major cities. The ...

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This week’s news that archaeologists have discovered the long-lost city of Valeriana highlights one major part of Maya society: astronomical observatories. More than 6,000 structures unveiled ...