An ancient Maya city, Los Abuelos, hidden for nearly 3,000 years in Guatemala's jungles, has been unearthed. Dating back to ...

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New research on the ancient Maya city of Ucanal in northern Guatemala reveals that its engineers maintained biologically clean drinking water for nearly 1,500 years, an extraordinary achievement in a ...

Only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is still standing today, but the modern Seven Wonders are rich with lesser ...

San Pedro La Laguna is a picturesque lakeside village located in the Sololá region of Guatemala, perched along the southern edge of Lake Atitlán. Surrounded by steep volcanic mountains and dense green ...

While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

National Geographic archaeologist George E. Stuart reported in 1975 on the scientists who sought to decode the ancient language—and the looters who stood in their way.

A new study reveals the Mayan paradox at Ucanal, where a sophisticated reservoir system kept water clean but hidden mercury ...

Luang Prabang is Southeast Asia's most elegant rebuke to the region's noisier reinventions, a UNESCO World Heritage city where monks still collect alms at dawn, French colonial architecture has not ...

Seven or eight years ago, a British globetrotter’s travel wish list might have included the cultural wonders of St Petersburg and the cosy cafes of Lviv. The enthralling architecture of Isfahan and ...

The Abuelas didn’t at first grasp the magnitude of what the regime had done. The junta, it was later revealed, was guilty not just of disappearing and killing adults they suspected of opposing them, ...