Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

If you're looking for suggestions for things to do during your next trip to the Yucatán Peninsula, we've got dozens.

Astrologer Lisa Stardust shares her insights on the Mayan system and how it captures the energy you were born into Getty If you think your birth chart says a lot about you, wait until you meet your ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican artistic director Jorge Díaz used to have a unique selection of bedtime stories for his son. Setting aside well-known books like “Pinocchio,” they read tales closer to home.

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 ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...

Archaeologists in northern Guatemala have uncovered a rare discovery at the ancient Maya city of Naachtun: a patolli gameboard crafted as a floor mosaic, the first of its kind in the region. The ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

Since Aguada Fénix’s initial discovery, the work has been led by University of Arizona professors Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan, culminating in a new paper recently published in Science Advances ...

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

When the Sun disappeared and the skies of the ancient world darkened without warning, many civilizations throughout time have turned to myth for answers. However, in the jungles of Mesoamerica, Mayan ...