In the Guatemalan lowlands, the ruins of Tikal emerged from the forest, then its inscriptions revealed a world of dynasties, invasions, and high-stakes “Star Wars” fought for conquest. This chapter ...

An enormous 3,000-year-old earthen platform topped with a series of structures, including a 13-foot-high pyramid, has been identified as the oldest and largest monumental construction discovered in ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just last week California’s secretary of state officially certified that nearly two-thirds of Californians voted to ...

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A vast, 3,000-year-old earthwork hidden in the jungle of southern Mexico may represent one of the earliest known attempts to create a "cosmogram", a map of the cosmos in monumental form, according to ...

Researchers propose Aguada Fénix’s vast architecture forms a cosmogram aligning structures with Mesoamerican calendar sunrises and directions today. Color-coded pigment caches and marine shells in ...

Five years ago, archaeologists announced they had discovered a massive Maya structure in southeastern Mexico. Built between 1000 and 800 B.C.E., the complex is known as Aguada Fénix, and researchers ...

The Aguada Fénix site in the state of Tabasco near the Guatemalan border is an early Maya construction dating from 3,000 years ago. (INAH) A massive platform hidden in a jungle in the southern Mexican ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...