When a relative died, I was given an extraordinary artifact—and a head-spinning journey down a 25-year ethical rabbit hole.

The team will deploy muography - a non-invasive imaging technique that harnesses cosmic rays - to search for hidden chambers within El Castillo pyramid at Chichén Itzá, Mexico. The groundbreaking ...

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

But when I reached out to more than 30 people with particular and exacting taste to see what they’ve been wearing to the airport lately, most told me that they were donning at least a pair of loose ...

A long-standing mystery surrounding the Mayan civilization's collapse has been solved. Scientists now believe a ...

In a recent study, Ph.D. candidate Yasmine Flynn-Arajdal studied iconographic representations of children in the Classic (ca.

Astrologer Lisa Stardust shares her insights on the Mayan system and how it captures the energy you were born into Getty If you think your birth chart says a lot about you, wait until you meet your ...

Three days before last week’s elections, the once-trenchant Saturday Night Live devoted its “Cold Opening” skit to poking fun at Zohran Mamdani, now New York mayor-elect, for “smiling so much my face ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

New research on Aguada Fénix, the oldest and largest known Maya monument (1050-700 B.C.E.), proposes its design as a "landscape-wide cosmogram," indicating an early and profound connection to the sky ...

Finding the oldest Maya site ever documented was only the beginning of archaeologist Takeshi Inomata’s discoveries. After locating the Aguada Fénix site buried in the jungle of southern Mexico in 2017 ...

Women played key political roles in Maya civilization throughout the 6th and 7th centuries C.E. Archaeologists at the ruins of Cobá, 70 miles from Chichen Itza, have just named another one of those ...