Maya blue was featured prominently on murals and other ancient artifacts, and despite the passage of time it remains as vibrant today as it had been when the Maya first used it, perhaps as early ...

Map of the Maya World. In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America.

The ancient Maya believed that everything in the universe, from the natural world to everyday experiences, was part of a ...

Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín continues his ongoing exploration of the knot and its capacity for metaphor at Elizabeth Xi Bauer ...

But, by 900AD, the glory days were over across much of the Maya world. Part of that ninth-century decline may have been an invasion by a people from the western edge of the Maya civilisation.

Laser mapping technology has uncovered nearly 1,000 early Mayan settlements and human-built roads that connected them, according to a recent study, which suggests the civilization was more ...

The site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' located on the southwestern edge of Lake Petén Itzá in Petén Department, Guatemala. The ancient Maya city, now covered by grass, is notable for its unusual urban grid ...

Archaeologists have discovered Maya royal bones that were dramatically and deliberately burned to indicate the end of a political era. CNN values your feedback 1.

People appeared to have left Ocomtún around the same time they did other Maya cities, from about 800 to 1000 A.D., a decline that researchers attribute to factors like drought and political strife.

A sprawling Maya city with palaces and pyramids was discovered in a dense Mexican jungle by a doctoral student who unknowingly drove past the site years ago on a visit to Mexico. Tulane University ...

In an ancient Maya temple-pyramid in Guatemala, archaeologists recently discovered the scorched bones of at least four adults who were likely members of a royal lineage. The burning signaled a ...