The colossal El Castillo, also known as the Temple of Kulkulcan, is located within the Chichen Itza complex and is celebrated as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

Two University of Houston professors' discovery of a Mayan ruler's tomb was named one of the top 10 finds of 2025 by ...

The team will deploy muography - a non-invasive imaging technique that harnesses cosmic rays - to search for hidden chambers within El Castillo pyramid at Chichén Itzá, Mexico. The groundbreaking ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what was found in its remnants.

Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during the ...

(CNN) — With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser ...

(CNN) – Explorers in Mexico discovered an ancient Mayan city in the country’s southeastern jungle. Researchers with the Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico said the site was called Ocomtún ...

A previously unknown ancient Mayan city was discovered deep in the jungles of the Balamku ecological reserve in Mexico, according to The New York Post. The Archaeology Council of the National ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Archeologists have found an ancient scoreboard used by Mayans during a ball game. The stone disk was found at Chichén Itzá, an iconic ancient city in Yucutan, Mexico, and dates back to the late 800s ...

Archaeologists, with the help of drones and Google Earth imagery, have discovered 4,000-year-old canals in Belize that were once used by the predecessors of the ancient Mayans to catch freshwater fish ...

Every once in a while, archaeologists pull something out of the ground that makes us rethink what we thought we knew about ...