Scientists studied the genetic makeup of seven Maya individuals—including one who was the victim of human sacrifice.

Yaxnohcah managed to maintain a city for so long because of the way they sustainably managed their water supply and agriculture. “It shows the organization of the Maya — their engineering, their ...

Every little piece we can obtain from the excavations is fundamental, like a piece of the larger puzzle we are putting ...

For millennia, the Maya people of Guatemala have been practising a unique agricultural system that fuses sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation. Based on the ...

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

“You couldn’t feed as many people as the ancient Maya did with the kind of slash-and-burn agriculture people in this part of the world use today,” says Tulane’s Canuto, who models ...

Photograph by Nadia Shira Cohen, National Geographic Maya agriculture revolves around a seasonal rotation of crops called the milpa. Here, De Celio Salazar Chan offers corn husks and a corn-honey ...

The Mayan language is a vehicle to rescue the knowledge that grandmothers and grandfathers have. Through it we can learn the details of traditional gastronomy, astronomy, agriculture and natural ...

“Dense settlement patterns indicate that the Maya were highly organized in managing their landscapes, with extensive networks of roads or causeways, residential areas, agricultural ...

Lidar technology revealed a sprawling, urban settlement, replete with architectural marvels and agricultural infrastructure. The classical-era Maya civilization dates back to the period between ...