Centuries before the advent of novocaine electric drills and x-rays, the ancient Maya may have been closing tooth cavities ...

Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

A cave in Belize contains teeth from dozens of important Maya people buried elsewhere, which may attest to a ritual intended ...

An ancient Maya settlement, lost to the forest for hundreds of years, was unexpectedly discovered at the bottom of an ...

Josh Gates has crouched over skeletons and skulls of people who lived thousands of years ago. He has stood at dig sites in ...

Guatemalan farmers are turning to organic pesticides, rooted in traditional practices and sustainable ideas, to replace expensive synthetic alternatives. Using a mixture of locally available plants, ...

Uxmal is considered one of the best-preserved cities of the ancient Maya world and remains one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the Yucatán Peninsula. Known for its monumental ...

An Archaemenian clay tablet written in the Elamite scripts is shown at Iran’s National Museum in Tehran. Credit: Behrouz Mahri, AFP For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks ...

Depictions of dogs in Maya art and archaeological finds point to a variety of possible roles in the ancient culture. Some Maya vases depict dogs walking below a ruler's hammock, which has been ...