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

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

William Gadoury, 15, was fascinated by the ancient Central American civilization and spent hours poring over diagrams of constellations and maps of ... stars and the location of Maya cities.

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 ...

William Gadoury, from Quebec, came up with the theory that the Maya civilization chose the location of its towns ... Studying the star map further, he discovered one city was missing from a ...

15-year-old boy living in Quebec, Canada William Gadoury examines his own hypothesis that "Maya civilization ... Gadoury noticed the location of known cities using Google Maps and that it matches ...

An American couple is using advanced technology to unearth an ancient civilization that might hold ... the pair came to the ruins of Caracol, an ancient Mayan city in Belize that was first ...

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

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 ...