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The height of the Maya kingdom, which stretched from 250 to 900 AD, included the rise of the Maya Ballgame, sometimes called pitz, and its ball court structures in the center of major cities. The ...

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Archaeologists using an old map of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have uncovered a lost Maya city, hidden until now, with thousands of buildings densely packed into a small area. The archaeological team ...

An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest. The data came from laser scans ...

Archaeologists have a discovered an ancient structure in the jungles of Mexico that may have been linked to the cult of a prominent Maya serpent deity. A team of researchers with the Mexican National ...

Researchers compared the newly discovered site of Valeriana to the well-known site of Calakmul in the Maya Lowlands. (photo via Wikimedia Commons) Archaeologists say they have found evidence of ...

When researchers excavated part of the ball court, they found a mysterious structure beneath it. Octavio Esparza Olguín Researchers have found a mysterious ancient structure beneath a Maya ball court ...

This week’s news that archaeologists have discovered the long-lost city of Valeriana highlights one major part of Maya society: astronomical observatories. More than 6,000 structures unveiled ...