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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Important archaeological sites often naturally reveal themselves after disasters like earthquakes and floods. However, it isn’t always that easy; ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the ruins of a 3,000-year-old Maya city featuring “remarkable” architecture, including pyramids and monuments, that shed more light on the ancient ...

Nowadays, the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala, have been largely reclaimed by the jungle. Howler monkeys jump from pyramid to pyramid. Bats hide in the crevices of abandoned ...

In the jungles of northern Guatemala, archaeologists brushed away centuries of soil to uncover a small altar that shouldn’t have been there. It stood no taller than a toddler, its four painted faces ...

After more than four decades of work on the site, a husband-and-wife team of archaeologists with the University of Houston has uncovered remains of the first royal tomb at Caracol, a sprawling ancient ...

A family altar in the Maya city of Tikal offers a glimpse into events in an enclave of the city’s foreign overlords in the wake of a local coup. Archaeologists recently unearthed the altar in a ...

For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient human history. Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, ...

A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries, has been discovered from the computer of a PhD student hundreds of miles away. This is the story of how he did it. The ...

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(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex ...