Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of ... Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of the better-known Maya sites.

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ago. The site was a thriving settlement during the Classic Maya ...

For a year, Gadoury painstakingly plotted 22 constellations onto a map of the Mayan empire. He was able to match 117 ancient Maya cities with the stars of the constellations, and even found that ...