A decline in the population density led to the eventual collapse of the Classic Maya civilisation, they concluded. This was ...

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

The ruins in question were the remnants of the Maya, a towering Mesoamerican civilization that had once covered much of Central America, from northern Belize through Guatemala and southern ...

An international team of researchers sequenced the genomes of seven individuals who lived in the ancient Maya city of Copán, ...

“They built an advanced civilization despite ... The landscape of the ancient Maya is stippled with ruins whose names are unknown to scholars and whose hieroglyphic inscriptions mention scores ...

Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

Though magnificent, the ruins of Tikal visible today represent ... a site and not greatly change our understanding of Classic Maya civilization. What changes it is the fortuitous discovery of ...

The site itself was originally a main hub of Mayan civilization and has since been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The focal point of the ruins is the pyramid-like El Castillo that was once ...