After using lasers to map the Maya Lowlands, researchers have updated their estimates of the total Maya population during the ...

The Mayan Languages Preservation and Digitization Project promotes tools designed by and for Indigenous communities, like online glossaries and special phone keyboards ...

New research using cutting-edge technology has uncovered surprising insights about the Maya civilization’s population.

In 2009 he used it to map Caracol, a Maya city in Belize, where he and his wife Diane Chase, an archaeologist at Claremont Graduate University, have worked for 35 years.

For over 1,100 years, the Maya built here, expanding the site until it covered an area of 25 square miles. In its heyday, the city may have had 100,000 residents, and it was ruled by a single ...

New lidar research shows the Maya civilization peaked at 16 million people, revealing dense cities and vast rural networks.

Key Vocabulary Activity: Draw a Maya map Quiz: Geography Learn more about Maya way of life Learn about the geography of South America The Maya civilisation lasted a long time. In Britain at this ...

Map of the Maya World Part 3 | Back to Part 2 Altun Ha Found on the outskirts of the Maya area, Altun Ha, which means "rockstone pond" in Yucatec Maya, is known for the fabulous jade that has ...