Until recently, Mayan script was indecipherable. David Stuart was one of the few who helped to crack it.

Maya culture never really collapsed. It simply adapted to changing circumstances, writes Dr. Pablo Mumary.

Slim and Trim Like Guava Limb return as the team to beat after a commanding 2025 performance that secured their third consecutive championship. The trio — Javier Guardado, Daniel Cruz Jr., and Andres ...

The lecture featured welcome remarks from Delmer Tzib, History Lecturer at UB, followed by remarks from Albert Vaughn, President of the National Institute of Culture and History, and closing remarks ...

Past civilizations have been significantly affected by climate change, but how they adapted to new conditions centuries ago is less clear. In research newly published in the Proceedings of the ...

Drawing upon 25 years of research, Andrew Scherer, professor of anthropology and archaeology and the ancient world and director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, ...

Deep in the Chiapas jungle, a hidden set of Maya murals survived centuries of decay, forcing scholars to rethink sacrifice, war, and royal power in the Classic period. This chapter follows their ...

View post: Antonio Brown Is Losing His $4 Million Mansion—And It’s Complicated Archaeologists discovered a 5,200-year-old canoe in Wisconsin, predating Egypt’s oldest pyramid. Sixteen ancient dugout ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

The spectacular discovery in Caracol of the 1,700-year-old tomb of Te’ Kab Chaak, founder of the Maya kingdom’s ruling dynasty, by University of Houston archeologists, has been named one of the year’s ...

In the Middle Ages, prophecies of a coming global collapse proliferated across Europe. Conditions were ripe for a powerful strain of apocalypticism to take hold: Population growth, the rise of ...