Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

An international team of researchers sequenced the genomes of seven individuals who lived in the ancient Maya city of Copán, ...

For over 3,000 years, the Mayas lived throughout the Maya Region, which consisted of parts of Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and all of Guatemala and Belize. Though their civilization is long gone ...

It’s the latest discovery to support the emerging view that some of the earliest structures built in the Maya region were significantly larger than those built more than a millennium later ...

The temples and palaces were mainly made of stone. Limestone in particular was available across much of the Maya region. Limestone is soft when first cut and hardens with age. Ordinary Maya homes ...

Auld-Thomas: It was very surprising. I think it goes to show that cities like this are not actually rare in the Maya region; large dense cities with monumental architecture and lots of residential ...

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 ...