As the ancient Mayan civilization slowly collapsed in Central America some thousand years ago, perhaps in the face of a quickly changing environment, its survivors retreated with their most precious ...

LOS ANGELES -- 250 ancient artifacts from the Mayan Civilization are on display in the US for the first time at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. "The Mayans have lived in Southern Mexico, ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

An ancient Maya artifact depicting a supernatural entity has been discovered in Mexico. Researchers with the country's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) uncovered the ceramic dish ...

The Tren Maya is one of those rare trains that's hard to love. It's an upwards of $20 billion project meant to take tourists into the heart of the Mexican rainforest where important, hard-to-reach ...