Jade Skirt: Us Maya have really healthy diets. As well as the maize, beans and squash we grow to eat, we also produce cotton to make cloth and flowers for decoration. We hunt deer, fish and birds ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

The new findings differ from what was found when other ancient Maya regions were examined with lidar. Some large ancient cities in Belize were surrounded by terraces built for agriculture, while ...

Archaeologists discovered, through environmental DNA technology, that ceremonial rituals of the ancient Mayan civilization ... revealing sustainable agricultural and forestry practices that ...

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(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex ...