Archaeologist have found a Maya complex in northern Guatamala that included astronomical observatories, pyramids, and complex ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

Archaeologists unearthed a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala — complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments — that reveals new traces of the ancient civilization. The ancient ...

The Mayan civilization arose around 2000 BC, reaching its height between 400 and 900 AD in what is present-day southern Mexico and Guatemala, as well as parts of Belize, El Salvador and Honduras.

The resulting map ... Mayan cities, towns and villages. A 110-mile (177-kilometer) network of raised stone trails, or causeways, that linked the communities reveals that the early civilization ...

The Mayan civilization ... Regarding the creation of the 3D map, the research team said, 'Our goal was to capture the history of the development of Copan's civilization while protecting this ...