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In four days of flying over a jungle, archaeologists using lidar (light detection and ranging) surpassed the data they collected in 25 years of ground exploration.

An anxious visit to a Mayan healer, where eggs illuminate the soul.

The Mayan pyramid Xunantunich and the struggling Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva have something in common: overreach.

A collection of clay jars, whose purpose long puzzled scholars, were used for drinking liquid chocolate a finding that offers the first proof of chocolate use in North America north of Mexico.

Mr. Sanders was an anthropologist whose studies of Mexico and Central America included an invaluable aerial survey of ancient archaeological sites.

Deeper issues aside, both “The Ancient Americas” at the Field Museum in Chicago and “Exploring the Early Americas” at the Library of Congress in Washington display impressive objects.

New research suggests that the Maya made their famous paint as part of rituals that sometimes involved human sacrifice.

New findings are some of the first strong evidence that the ancient Maya civilization had a market economy similar in some respects to societies today.

Megan Ybarra letter on December 16 travel article about Tikal, ancient Mayan site in Guatemala

Tikal, the ancient Mayan site in the Guatemalan jungle, has the feel of a living ruin, closer to its original vitality than perhaps any deserted city of the past.

Away from the crowded beaches of this popular Central American country is a lush interior, thick with rain forests, Mayan ruins and intricate cave systems that can be explored on an inner tube.

The puzzling election loss of Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala’s first indigenous presidential candidate.

Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.

Joel Garten letter comments on July 1 article on predictions of final days based on Mayan calendar

A growing community of amateur scholars believe thatthe world as we know it will come to an end in 2012, as prophesied by the ancient Maya. Is the New Age apocalypse coming round at last?