Thanks to the power of remote sensing lasers, scientists in Mexico have achieved vivid new insights into how people lived during the ancient Mayan empire’s powerful Kanu’l or Snake dynasty, from about ...

Following years of research, scientists from the Bajo Laberinto Archaeological Project, a University of Calgary-led interinstitutional and multidisciplinary research project, in conjunction with ...

MEXICO CITY, Oct 27 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 27 story has been refiled to fix spelling of 'peel' in paragraph 6) A laser-powered study of the sprawling metropolis of Calakmul in southern Mexico offers ...

Archaeologists say they have gained new insights into the Maya 'Snake Kings' who ruled parts of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala around 1,500 years ago. They say newly discovered stucco reliefs at a site ...

"Just so you know up front, I'm not climbing all the way to the top." It was late on a warm, humid Yucatan day, and I'd pretty well drained my tank scaling a cute little number named Structure XIII on ...