Maya Archive

Jan Bartek  - AncientPages.com - A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilization collapse. There is no dispute that a series of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of international researchers led by the University of Arizona reported last year that they had uncovered the largest and oldest Maya

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient rulers had one thing in common with political leaders today - they were eager to brand themselves. Archaeologists have discovered Maya rulers

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Studies of ancient Maya codices, along with investigations of their glyphs and other important archaeological findings, reveal the Maya developed a special relationship

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - Edzná is an ancient place populated in 400 BC and abandoned c. 1500 AD.  It is a Maya archaeological site in the north of the Mexican state of Campeche.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Every society has some degree of wealth inequality—over history, in different cultures across continents. There always seem to be some people who have

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  Ancient Maya in the once-bustling city of Tikal built sophisticated water filters using natural materials they imported from miles away, according to new

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Reservoirs in the heart of an ancient Maya city were so polluted with mercury and algae that the water likely was undrinkable in

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya believed that the underworld – Xibalba - was a ‘place of fear’. In some ancient accounts, it is a domain of

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - Abaj Takalik (also Tak'alik Ab'aj means 'standing stone' in the local K'iche' Maya language) has a pre-Columbian origin. The earliest known occupation at

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The long-lost capital of an ancient Maya kingdom in the backyard of a Mexican cattle rancher has been discovered by associate professor of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 8,000 tree-shrouded structures of varying sizes along the sacbe (white road) - with enough total volume to fill approximately 2,900 Olympic

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When the Conquistadors came to explore the New World in the early 16th century, they heard rumors about a magnificent wealthy city of

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - In the mythology of Maya peoples from the Yucatán Peninsula and Guatemala, there are tales of curious creatures called aluxes. They are believed to

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com  - The largest known figurine workshop in the Mayan world, has been discovered by archaeologists working in Guatemala. The workshop dated to between 750

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the three largest and most important Mayan city-states, next to Tikal (Guatemala) and Palenque, was Calakmul ("City of the Two Adjacent Pyramids").

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Today the Actun Tunichil Muknal (Cave of the Stone Sepulcher) is a national park and major tourist attraction drawing hundreds of people visiting this

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A great number of archaeological sites and prehistoric monuments have revealed alignments towards celestial events that played an important role in the life of

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient sources reveal that Mayan priests had knowledge of a very old civilization that underground but for there was a reason why no-one was

AncientPages.com - Researchers at Tulane University have documented the discovery of dozens of ancient cities in northern Guatemala through the use of jungle-penetrating Lidar (light detection and ranging) technology.

AncientPages.com - While excavating in northern Guatemala archaeologist have come across an ancient altar that depicts scenes reminding of the popular fantasy drama television series "Game of Thrones". It's