Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mayan Chichén Itzá, an archaeological site in Mexico, as seen from the air. Thick forest around unexcavated Mayan ruins makes ...

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More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping systems in the ancient world—a system that could predict solar eclipses for ...

It's not every day that modern researchers uncover an ancient lost city. But for a network of scientists exploring Mexico's central Yucatan Peninsula, that very phenomenon is becoming so common that ...

With the aid of LiDAR technology, archaeologists penetrated the dense forests of the Yucatán Peninsula to discover unusual complexes that they argue were once Mayan marketplaces, illuminating a ...

Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology have detected what may be an ancient Mayan city cloaked by jungle in southern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. The lost city, dubbed Valeriana by ...