A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived in southeastern Mexico and northern Central America in the early 800s. A hundred years later ...

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

A student found a lost Maya city the size of Washington, D.C. buried under the thick jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

The paper, by Martin Medina-Elizalde at the University of Southampton in Southampton, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Related to Modest Reduction in ...

leading to the collapse of not only Tikal but dozens of cities in the southern part of the empire. A civilization dries up By the time of Tikal's decline sometime around 900, Maya civilization and ...

The new city, dubbed Valeriana, was a dense urban settlement with temple pyramids and a ball court. Laser surveys have ...

On the one side, it is claimed that factors such as drought and declining soil fertility caused the collapse of key Mayan regions starting around 800 CE. These researchers often cite population ...

The paper, by Martin Medina-Elizalde at the University of Southampton in Southampton, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Related to Modest Reduction in ...

A huge lost city has been found in the jungle in Mexico. The city was built by Maya people hundreds of years ago.