Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala, revealing sanctuaries, ...

"When they started looking at, through that telescope… they found thousands ... estimated just 1 or 2 million people lived in the Maya lowlands. But researchers now believe as many as 20 million ...

An ancient Mayan Copernicus Scholar says ancient hieroglyphic texts reveal Mayans made major discovery in math, astronomy Date: August 16, 2016 Source: University of California - Santa Barbara ...

The Maya, best known these days for the doomsday they never foretold, may have accurately predicted astronomical phenomena centuries ahead of time, scientists find. A new book, "Astronomy in the ...

Mexico and Central America are rich in Mayan ruins. Satellites are helping scientists spot more ancient Mayan ruins than ever before, which is no small feat considering how thick the forest is in ...

A Mayan observatory may have tracked the movement ... say it proves ancient civilisations had an intricate knowledge of astronomy. "We believe this building used to be a multifunctional facility ...

"And it's amazing it's on a wall. It's not in a book." Mayan numbers are written with bars and dots. Their use in calendars and astronomy is well-known from a Mayan book called the Dresden Codex ...

Aldana reported in the current issue of the Journal of Astronomy in Culture. The Venus table also matches another measurement of a Venus event found in a text from an ancient Mayan civilization ...

The Mayan language is a vehicle to rescue the knowledge that grandmothers and grandfathers have. Through it we can learn the details of traditional gastronomy, astronomy, agriculture and natural ...

ISABEL HAWKINS: Yeah, it’s really amazing. When I started going to Guatemala was in 2010 when the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian asked me to develop a website on Maya astronomy and ...