Learn what caused a major population crash in the Maya civilization, driving several cities to fall into ruin.

This week’s news that archaeologists have discovered the long-lost city of Valeriana highlights one major part of Maya society: astronomical observatories. More than 6,000 structures unveiled ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a colossal Maya cosmogram at Aguada Fenix, which serves as a 3,000-year-old map of the universe etched directly into bedrock. This discovery, at the largest ancient Maya ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This 75-minute teacher webinar focused on the ways in which the Maya have used the Sun to track time for thousands of years. Ancestral calendars ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping systems in the ancient world—a system that could predict solar eclipses for ...

For more than 120 years, the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data, has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its ...

Lowry and Justeson’s analysis involved mathematically modeling the eclipse predictions in the Dresden Codex table and ...

A new study shows the ancient Dresden Codex held calculations could forecast eclipses centuries ahead. Maya daykeepers used overlapping 223- or 358-month cycles to maintain precise lunar and solar ...

We live in a light-polluted world, where street lamps, electronic ads and even backyard lighting block out all but the brightest celestial objects in the night sky. But travel to an officially ...

The international academic journal Science featured on its June 3rd cover an image of an ancient structure under a star-filled night sky. This structure is a 10th-century Mayan building at Chichen ...

(CNN) — The first time I watched “Raiders of the Lost Ark” as a kid, it inspired me to explore the little forest behind my house. Armed with a walking stick and a shovel in my best impersonation of ...

The Maya, best known these days for the doomsday they never foretold, may have accurately predicted astronomical phenomena centuries ahead of time, scientists have found. A new book, "Astronomy in the ...