The Maya civilization emerged circa 2000 BCE, and for centuries they ruled over an extensive territory in Central America.

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Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

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"It's increasingly clear that this was an extraordinary period of turbulence at Tikal," study coauthor Stephen Houston, an expert on Maya civilization at Brown University, said in a statement.

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it appears foreigners from Teotihuacan built it.

Archaeologists have long puzzled over the relationship between the Maya and Teotihuacan. Separated by more than 800 miles, these two civilizations flourished around the same time and often traded ...

While exploring, you’ll encounter stunning formations of stalactites and stalagmites, relics of Mayan civilization, and, perhaps most chillingly, evidence of the ancient rituals that once took place ...

In Guatemala’s Tikal National Park, which was once the center of the Maya civilization, archaeologists discovered a fifth-century C.E. altar from the Teotihuacan culture. The Teotihuacan people lived ...

By looking closely at this remarkable find, we’ve uncovered the footprint of an ancient foreign occupation that marked a turning point for Maya civilization. “Everyone knows what happened to the Aztec ...