Mexican archaeologists have registered a sprawling ancient Maya city in southern Quintana Roo after local residents flagged ...

An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest. The data came from laser scans ...

Archaeologists using an old map of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have uncovered a lost Maya city, hidden until now, with thousands of buildings densely packed into a small area. The archaeological team ...

Support of the Mayan Train project collapsed due to intense rain and this caused a vehicle to be crushed. This incident has been compared to the Mexico City Metro Line 12 tragedy in which 26 people ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past. Ancient builders across the world created structures that are still standing today, ...

Some 3,000 years ago, the people who would come to be known as the Maya started to build the kind of monumental architecture—pyramids, plazas, and vast urban settlements—that still inspire wonder to ...

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In mid-2020, Mexico began work on Tren Maya, a 1,000-mile long railway network lopping together the nation’s Mayan sites. Future travelers to Kohunlich, a 2,000-year-old Mayan city on the border of ...

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When researchers excavated part of the ball court, they found a mysterious structure beneath it. Octavio Esparza Olguín Researchers have found a mysterious ancient structure beneath a Maya ball court ...