Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

In a remarkable discovery that has captured the attention of archaeologists worldwide, a 1,400-year-old cube-shaped skull was ...

Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

An expert has predicted the baby names on the rise in 2026 and says pop culture names - such as Zendaya and Charli - are out.

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic ...

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

New research on Aguada Fénix, the oldest and largest known Maya monument (1050-700 B.C.E.), proposes its design as a "landscape-wide cosmogram," indicating an early and profound connection to the sky ...