After using lasers to map the Maya Lowlands, researchers have updated their estimates of the total Maya population during the Late Classic Period (A.D. 600 to 900).

A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...

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This video shows the ancient city of Tikal National Park, Petén, Guatemala, where massive Maya temples rise above one of the ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know ...

The researchers had a series of hieroglyphs to decipher. (Rossi et al., Antiquity, 2026) The Classic Maya period, from around ...

Drawing upon 25 years of research, Andrew Scherer, professor of anthropology and archaeology and the ancient world and director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...