Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and paper. Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of ...

For a brief period one of those city-states prevailed and became the closest thing to an empire in Maya history. It was ruled by the Snake kings of the Kaanul dynasty, which until just a few ...

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He wondered, what if the Maya mirrored their cities on the constellations they saw in the sky? For a year, Gadoury painstakingly plotted 22 constellations onto a map of the Mayan empire.

With the aid of breakthrough technology, researchers discovered and studied a 1,300-year-old Maya road in Mexico that ... of Washington attempted to map the entire length of the highway in the ...