Mexican pyramid is "like a Russian nesting doll"
The Temple of Kukulcan at Chichen Itza, a World Heritage site in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, revealed yet another pyramid inside,...
“Less than a dozen painted fig bark sheets ripped from an ancient astronomy manuscript”
Found in 1965 by looters and purchased by a former Mexican Cabinet member, this “book” was long thought to have been a forgery. Now,...
Finding the Snake Dynasty
In 2013, archaeologist Francisco Estrada-Belli made one of the most exciting discoveries of his career—a Mayan glyph of a grinning snake....
“Snake Dynasty” in the Mayan jungle
Xunantunich, a 700 AD Mayan city in what is now Belize, is finally revealing its secrets to archaeologists. Recent excavations have...
The diets of the Maya reveal “a complicated social system”
Much of what is known about the ancient Maya civilization derives from the study of the remains of their monumental cities—numerous...
Meet Tlaloque and Tláloc II: two robots exploring a tunnel at Teotihuacán
At Teotihuacán, an ancient capital in the Valley of Mexico, robots have been employed to explore a newly-discovered tunnel leading from...