Limestone is soft when first cut and hardens with age. Ordinary Maya homes were not built on platforms like the city temples and palaces but on ground level. They were built in an oval shape ...

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

Photos show some of the ancient stone homes. The high-status residents may have been connected to the nearby city-turned-archaeological-site, officials said. Some of the 1,000-year-old Maya ruins.

near the ancient Maya city of Dos Hombres. To learn about the house’s long-dead residents, study author Angelina J. Locker analyzed a fragmented skeleton that was buried along with the teeth of ...

The method revealed a 21-square-mile metropolis with iconic stone pyramids, houses and other ... like many other ancient civilizations, the lowland Maya built a diverse tapestry of towns and ...

Welcome, and congratulations for discovering an ancient Mayan settlement ... around would have been other small settlements or other houses. The landscape would be a mosaic of some forest patches ...