Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...

Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...

The beautiful national park boasts monkeys, jaguars and dense rainforest - and it may look familiar to Star Wars fans as it ...

Archaeologists working at Naachtun, a Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, have uncovered a unique fifth-century patolli ...

Where was the 2025 series filmed? - Starting from an island in Mexico, the teams travelled to the northernmost point of South ...

Richard Bevan reveals the real stories behind the world’s lost cities - how they fell, how they were found, and why their ...

More than a dozen coatis in Tikal were suddenly sent scattering when a jaguar came out of nowhere to hunt one of the coati down, doing so at the feet of a woman recording the encounter on her phone.

Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic ...

An ancient platform was found in the Aguada Fénix area of Tabasco, Mexico, that maps the cosmos and rituals of the first ...

Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered crops and wealth as they raced their opponents around a cross-shaped board. The ...

Researchers studying Classic Maya cities discovered that urban growth was driven by a blend of climate downturns, conflict, and powerful economies of scale in agriculture. These forces made crowded, ...