The artificial plateau made from earth, with connecting causeways, canals and corridors, was built in southeastern Mexico ...

Ek’ Balam is one of the most impressive Mayan archeological zones, thanks to its incredible preservation. A new discovery ...

Introduction: the first sacred kings of Mesoamerica / Virginia M Fields with Dorie Reents-Budet -- Between heaven and earth: the cival cache and the creation of the Mesoamerican cosmos / Jeremy R.

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

Ritual killing was a common part of religious sacrifice in the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá. For decades, media depictions cast the victims of these acts as young women and adolescent girls. In ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Sixty-six million years ...