A pair of chert points found alongside human skeletons in a cave in Belize may represent the first known tattooing needles ...

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ago. The site was a thriving settlement during the Classic Maya ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as ...

Concerned that Maya research was limited to a few experts with special access to key resources, Merle Greene Robertson, an American artist based at the Classic Maya site of Palenque, built a ...

Deep in the jungles of northeastern Chiapas state in southern Mexico lies Palenque, a Late Classic Maya city known for its detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions and sculpted reliefs. These highly ...

This famous Maya city is an important ceremonial center and one of the leading scientific centers of the Classic Maya period, used as an astronomical observatory. It flourished during the 7th ...