The masons, who are direct descendants of the ancient Maya, said that they commonly use extracts from plants and particularly sap from the Chucúm and Jiote (Chaká) trees in their lime mix.

Beyond it lie the ruins of an old Maya city, barely a 15-minute walk from the busy roadway but until now unknown to archaeologists, its secrets cloaked over the centuries by unchecked foliage.

Laser imaging of the rainforests of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula have turned up thousands of ancient Maya structures — and an entire previously unknown city, a new study has found. By flying ...

The Ancient Maya city of Copán was built with a stronger kind of plaster. Now, scientists have reconstructed the material.

In the ruined Mayan city of Palenque, State of Chiapas, Mexico, Mexican Archaeologist Alberto Ruz Luhillier had the thrill that all diggers hope for: he was the first to look into a ceremonial ...

Studies have shown that ancient Maya builders used a range of natural materials such as blood, eggs and natural rubber obtained from local trees when preparing mortar. For example, when in 2018 ...