The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

The Maya civilization is one of the biggest and most famous of pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas. For over 3,000 ...

The Maya seem to have developed alongside, and traded ideas with, the neighboring Olmec civilization, which some consider one of the most influential societies of ancient times. Researchers ...

El Mirador has long been considered the “cradle of the Maya civilization,” but the proof of a complex society already being in place circa 1000 B.C. suggests “a whole volume of human history ...

The dynasty flourished during the Classic period of Maya culture, from 250 to 900 A.D., when the civilization counted its greatest achievements in architecture, engineering, astronomy and mathematics.

The Maya Civilization Collapsed 1,200 Years Ago. But Their Genes Never Stopped Spreading. Scientists studied the genetic makeup of seven Maya individuals—including one who was the victim of ...

Researchers saw a subsequent decline in population around 750 A.D., “coinciding with the onset of the collapse of Classic Maya civilization,” according to the paper.

Laser mapping technology has uncovered nearly 1,000 early Mayan settlements and human-built roads that connected them, according to a recent study, which suggests the civilization was more ...

How an American couple are piecing together a lost civilization 07:32. A sprawling Maya city with palaces and pyramids was discovered in a dense Mexican jungle by a doctoral student who ...

The Mayan civilization emerged around 2000 BC and reached its peak between 400 and 900 AD, spanning present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala and parts of Belize, El Salvador and Honduras.

What this analysis revealed could not only rewrite our understanding of Maya sacrificial rituals, but also raise new ...