Their diet would have consisted of maize ... Even though much of Ancient Mayan culture is significantly different from our ...

we also hold on to the Maya’s calendar, its maize-heavy diet, and incredible structures found at sites such as Uaxactun, ...

As a mussel geek, how does Pfeiffer feel about the lifestyles of the ancient Maya, whose diet, clothing, architecture and burials were so populated with mussels? "I'm kind of jealous," he said.

The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.

An international team of archaeologists discovered an ancient Maya city in a northeastern area of Guatemala known for its tropical forests and ruins.

Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during ...

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