WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of Campeche.

Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

the city of their most hated enemy. Just as Tikal dominated the Maya lowlands for centuries, it has dominated Maya archaeology since the 1950s. The sprawling city once had a population approaching ...

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with stepped temple pyramids to rival Chichén Itzá, Río Bec, and Tikal.

EXCLUSIVE: Archaeologists say newly discovered stucco reliefs in Mexico provide valuable insights into Kings' ancestors who ...

The storefront of Tikal Mayan Food. Tikal’s interior. The restaurant peddles polished home-style fare. Tamales come wrapped in a banana leaf; the beef version includes refried black beans and ...

Archaeologists using an old map of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have uncovered a lost Maya city, hidden until now ... a lidar survey of Tikal, in Guatemala, revealed an previously unknown ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly unveiled a vast ancient Mayan city hidden beneath a dense jungle ... of those found at Chichén Itzá in Yucatan and ...

Laser imaging of the rainforests of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula have turned up thousands of ancient Maya structures — and an entire previously unknown city ... cities like Tikal and El Mirador ...