The Maya civilization flourished more than 1,000 years ago, but modern technology is only now revealing the secrets of this ancient Mexican and Central American culture—and it’s happening at an ...

An ancient temple hidden right under archaeologists’ noses at Tikal, one of the world’s most famous Maya sites, hints at a tantalizing connection between the Guatemalan city and Teotihuacan, a ...

Beneath the dense jungle canopy of Mexico’s Campeche region, a sprawling Maya city and thousands of surrounding structures sat undetected for centuries. No expedition on foot found them. No satellite ...

Pots with fancifully molded eyes, noses and mouths were one of the tip-offs. Adrian Chase already had a growing sense that Maya society wasn’t quite what it’s been traditionally portrayed as: powerful ...

An airborne lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de ...

Archaeologists led by Ivan Šprajc identified a network of ancient Maya marketplaces in the jungles of southeastern Mexico, especially in Campeche. Airborne LiDAR scans revealed about 50 complexes with ...

Ancient cities, long hidden by dense jungles, are now being revealed thanks to advanced LiDAR technology. This airborne ...

Archaeologists using an old map of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have uncovered a lost Maya city, hidden until now, with thousands of buildings densely packed into a small area. The archaeological team ...

Ancient Maya society got off to a monumentally fast start around 3,000 years ago. Excavations and airborne mapping at a previously unknown site in Mexico, called Aguada Fénix, have uncovered the ...