A trio of ancient reservoirs in present-day Guatemala is revealing both the strength—and limitations—of Mayan water science.

(CNN) — With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser ...

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with ...

LOS ANGELES -- 250 ancient artifacts from the Mayan Civilization are on display in the US for the first time at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. "The Mayans have lived in Southern Mexico, ...

Past civilizations have been significantly affected by climate change, but how they adapted to new conditions centuries ago ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of Texas ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn how the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will raise Louisiana’s ...

With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has ...