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

Known as the Campana structure, this pyramid was built using tephra, or volcanic ejecta, produced by the catastrophic Tierra ...

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

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in northern Guatemala, revealing a treasure trove of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala, revealing pyramids, murals, and statues.

It’s the latest discovery to support the emerging view that some of the earliest structures built in the Maya region were significantly larger than those built more than a millennium later ...

Some 3,000 years ago, the people who would come to be known as the Maya started to build the kind of monumental architecture—pyramids, plazas, and vast urban settlements—that still inspire wonder to ...

But part of that region is blank no longer. Archaeologists have found thousands of never-before-seen Maya structures as well as a large city that they named Valeriana after a nearby lagoon ...