In the Guatemalan lowlands, the ruins of Tikal emerged from the forest, then its inscriptions revealed a world of dynasties, invasions, and high-stakes “Star Wars” fought for conquest. This chapter ...

Just outside Tikal, LiDAR revealed what looked like hills. But beneath them? A complex of buried buildings with unmistakable Teotihuacan design — 800 miles from the original. Was this a colony, a copy ...

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A Mayan patolli board has been found in Guatemala, embedded in the floor of a house and hidden for 1,500 years.

Dr. Frankopan is a professor of global history at Oxford and the author of “The Earth Transformed: An Untold History.” This month Tehran, a city of 10 million people, was questioning its viability.

A 16-story pyramid towers over the rainforest that covers the remains of the ancient Maya city of Calakmul in Mexico. Calakmul was the capital city of the Kaanul, or Snake, Dynasty from the ...

The Maya people are remembered for amazing creations, like their spectacular buildings and beautiful objects made from jade, a rare and valuable material. They also invented groundbreaking ideas which ...

On the night of June 24, A.D. 726, a Maya official named Ajpach’ Waal reached the pinnacle of his career. On that day, he was granted an audience with the thirteenth king of Copán, known to scholars ...

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