Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

De Anda also had the cooperation of the National Institute ... on what are now the ruins of a platform on the top southwest corner of the structure. To the sky-gazing Maya, the pyramids in the ...

Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World Heritage site, the ruins of Palenque lie in the lush basin of the Usumacinta River in the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

The team’s findings were part of a new documentary series on National Geographic ... the 1,000-year-old Mayan artifacts that were uncovered beneath the ancient ruins at the Balamku Cave.

On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...