Until recently, Mayan script was indecipherable. David Stuart was one of the few who helped to crack it.

With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has ...

New research suggests that explanations based only on climate may not fully account for the major decline of the lowland ...

While Mel Gibson’s thrilling film “Apocalypto” attempted to depict a clear image of Mayan culture, it didn’t. There are in reality extensive gaps in our understanding of this civilization. In a recent ...

A trio of ancient reservoirs in present-day Guatemala is revealing both the strength—and limitations—of Mayan water science.

LOS ANGELES -- 250 ancient artifacts from the Mayan Civilization are on display in the US for the first time at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. "The Mayans have lived in Southern Mexico, ...

An ancient Maya city, Los Abuelos, hidden for nearly 3,000 years in Guatemala's jungles, has been unearthed. Dating back to ...

The Maya have lived in Central America and the Yucatán Peninsula since at least 1800 B.C. and flourished in the region for thousands of years. According to countless studies, the Maya civilization ...

One of Civilization 7's biggest changes to the decades-old series formula is its new Age system, which sees each match get split into three parts. Each of Civilization 7's three Ages has its own set ...