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

The ancient site is believed to be one of the earliest and most significant ceremonial centers of the Maya civilization in ...

Born in the depths of Central American tropical jungles, the Mayan civilization achieved great accomplishments in areas such ...

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle lies the remains of an ancient city forgotten about for nearly 3,000 years, experts reveal.

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The Mayan civilization was one of the foremost to have developed the Mayan astrology system Mayan astrology is based the on the 260day ceremonial calendar called the Tzolkin which was used by the Maya ...

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

Did you know scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind the ancient Mayan calendar? For years, people were fascinated by its complex design and thought it might predict the end of the world.

The movements of all major planets visible to the ancient Mayans fit into this extended calendar. The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research ...