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 ...

Who were the Maya? Decoding the ancient civilization’s secrets The pyramid-building Maya reigned over much of Central America. Today, descendants keep Maya history alive—a sign of resilience. This ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our understanding of ancient Mesoamerican society. Hidden beneath the dense jungle ...

A new, immersive exhibit has arrived at the California Science Center — and it explores an ancient, bygone civilization. “Maya: The Exhibition,” which opened earlier this week and will run through ...

Researchers have looked back in history and found that the great Maya Civilization might have been brought down by climate change. In the study, published in the Nature Communications journal, it has ...

“Mayan calendar specialists anticipated solar eclipses by correlating their occurrences with dates in their 260-day ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created by severe, prolonged drought. But new research led by Brandeis anthropologist Charles ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — In a couple of weeks, when the sky goes dark, many of us will look up, but Kim Breuer said it’s also a good time to look back. “From the beginning of man, people stop to look at ...

CHIAPAS, Mexico — On a bright, buggy summer morning, Charles Golden, an anthropologist at Brandeis University, slashed through the knee-high grass of a cattle ranch deep in the Valle de Santo Domingo, ...

Part 1. Prologue. Some problems posed -- Geography and environment -- Language and population -- Physical appearance and psychological traits -- Search and research -- Dating Maya history and the ...