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 ...

Shimmying through a maze of dark tunnels below the Mayan ruins of Chichén Itzá on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, archaeologists have rediscovered a long-sealed cave brimming with lost treasure. According ...

Archaeologists have discovered a cave filled with hundreds of artifacts beneath the ruins of the Mayan city of Chichen Itza in Mexico, the lead researcher on the project said Monday, calling the find ...

The ancient pot was discovered by members of the Urban Cenotes organization, which preserves caves around the Yucatán Peninsula. Photo by the National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

STORY: Parts of Mexico's remote southern jungles have barely changed since the time of ancient Maya. But now, scientists and environmental activists say the pristine wilderness and ancient cave ...

Detail of eye on page 6 of the Grolier Codex (photo by Michael Coe, all courtesy Brown University) In the 1960s, looters searching a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, came across a rare, ancient codex rich ...

Belize may not be the first country to come to mind when you think of famous Mayan archaeological wonders. Sites like Chichén Itzá in Mexico or Tikal in Guatemala often overshadow the incredible ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen. Members of Mexico’s Cenotes Urbanos organization found a ...