The ancient Maya built soaring temples and grand architecture above ground during their several-thousand-year reign in Central America, and it is these towering works that are most noticeable today, a ...

Archaeologists have discovered a palace at an ancient Maya city in southeastern Mexico that shares characteristics with ruins in neighboring Guatemala, which could point to an "important" period of ...

The Maya civilization had one of the most intricate religious systems in the ancient world. From powerful gods like the maize god and the rain god Chaac to the complex calendar cycles and ancestor ...