In the south of Mexico are vast jungle regions that harbor rich biodiversity and different ecosystems that travelers can visit through various routes and paths full of many species of flora and fauna, ...

After decades of mystery, researchers in Mexico may have finally found the ancient city of Sak Tz’i’—a much-fabled Maya dynasty whose land spanned 100 acres of jungle and dates back at least 2,500 ...

Before the pandemic, the long-sought ruins of Sak Tz’i’, a small but influential Mesoamerican kingdom, were discovered on a cattle ranch in Mexico. This summer archaeologists returned to excavate it.

The Lacandon Maya lived deep in the jungles of southern Mexico with limited outside contact until the turn of the 20th Century, when loggers and missionaries began to arrive. I first met Daniel ...

A severe, prolonged drought created an agricultural crisis that swept all of the Maya kingdoms into history. That's the popular narrative for the fall of the ancient Maya. New research led by Brandeis ...

Using the high-resolution airborne LiDAR data, archaeologists have found extensive systems of sophisticated irrigation and terracing in and outside the ancient settlements of three Classic-period Maya ...

Many believe climate change and environmental degradation caused the Maya civilization to fall — but a new survey shows that some Maya kingdoms had sustainable agricultural practices and high food ...

This year’s most intriguing discoveries include an Aztec skull tower, fossilized footprints and Nazi shipwrecks Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Fascinating finds revealed in ...

Researchers excavate an altar in the capital of the Maya kingdom of Sak Tz'i'. Brown University In 1994, Western archaeologists began a fervent search for the ancient Maya kingdom of Sak Tz’i’ (Mayan ...

Researchers have been searching for Sak Tz’i’, an important city from the ancient Maya civilization, since 1994; thanks in part to Brown anthropologists, they now have physical evidence that it ...

Archaeologists have discovered the capital of a long-lost Maya kingdom in the backyard of a cattle rancher in Mexico. Experts from Brandeis University and Brown University were part of an ...

Archaeologists excavating the site of Lacanja Tzeltal in Mexico have discovered the ruins of the capital of a kingdom known from Classic period Maya inscriptions as Sak Tz’i’ (White Dog). Among their ...