Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered ...

Patolli was detected in the ancient city of Naachtun in northern Guatemala, found to be embedded within the floor of a ...

An ancient Maya structure was likely built around communal astronomical observations, but the identity of a mysterious woman ...

Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the ...

An ancient Mayan monument found at Mexico’s Aguada Fénix site in 2020 has now been revealed by archaeologists as a cosmogram.

The history of the ancient Maya board game patolli gained a new twist when archaeologists discovered a game board embedded in ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during the ...

Scientists believe the people were sacrificed to appease the Mayan rain god, Chaac. Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of ...

Among the early Maya, the site of Aguada Fénix would have been a place for everyone to gather for trade, socialization, and ...

New study uncovers the forces that shaped and later brought down ancient urban centers, and shows how these patterns are reflected in modern city challenges.