A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

Part of the reason these discoveries are standing at all is because the ancient Maya built with stone, which does not rot away like wood. But they were also particularly good at making mortar to ...

Researchers excavating the ancient Mayan city of Dzibanche, on Mexico’s border with Belize, have uncovered a rare set of stucco reliefs that shed light on one of the region’s powerful 1st ...

And when Auld-Thomas analyzed that data, he stumbled onto a huge surprise — evidence of more than 6,600 Maya structures, including a previously unknown large city complete with iconic stone ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

Last year, Luke Auld-Thomas, a researcher specializing in Mayan settlements at Tulane University in New Orleans, was poring over a Mexican environmental monitoring survey, when he spotted ...

Scientists have uncovered a secret Mayan city hiding in Mexico ... The method revealed a 21-square-mile metropolis with iconic stone pyramids, houses and other infrastructure that have been ...

The discovery serves as a stepping stone for understanding the ancient Mayan urbanization and settlement patterns.

Researchers used laser-guided imaging to uncover vast unexplored Maya settlements in Campeche, Mexico, revealing more than 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures, including a previously unknown large city with ...

Hispanic structures including stone pyramids, using a laser detection system to survey 50 square miles in Campeche, Mexico.

Opening a restaurant in Mexico’s Riviera Maya wasn’t an obvious next step for Curtis Stone. After all, the acclaimed Australian chef is squarely settled in Los Angeles, where he owns and runs ...