Maya Jama relaxed with an eye mask on and sneakily drank tequila out of a water bottle while on a flight out of Fiji on Friday.. The TV presenter, 29, has been jetting back and forth from the sun ...

Ancient Maya in the once-bustling city of Tikal built sophisticated water filters using natural materials they imported from miles away, according to new research. A multidisciplinary team of ...

Almost 2,000 years ago, the ancient Maya living in what is now known as Guatemala were filtering drinking water with a sophisticated number of compounds still used in modern commercial filters. In ...

The ancient Maya people of Mesoamerica developed one of the world's oldest water purification systems — and it would still work today — a study has found.. Experts from the US discovered ...

Ancient Maya in the city of Tikal built an advanced water filter system that could remove microbes and heavy metals, 2,000 years before such systems were used in Europe. Researchers found natural ...

Ancient Maya in the once-bustling city of Tikal built sophisticated water filters using natural materials they imported from miles away, according to the University of Cincinnati. A ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a water filtration system in Mayan ruins which was so effective it would still be suitable for today, researchers have announced.

Archaeologists have posited that water lilies were used to clean ancient reservoirs—still-water systems that were susceptible to algal growth that would have made the water undrinkable—during ...

She suggests that the Maya also used a diverse array of aquatic plants to keep their water clean, much like today's constructed wetlands—specifically cattails, sedges, reeds, bamboo, and water ...