Baylor University’s Julie Hoggarth, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology and noted Maya archaeologist, has been elected ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala.

This article was originally published with the title “Underwater Archaeology in the Maya Highlands” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 200 No. 3 (March 1959), p. 100 ...

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

A Late Classic (A.D. 600–900) Maya vase from the Peten region of Guatemala portrays a king and queen (above, center) preparing to perform a ceremonial dance. Both royal figures wear feather ...

Rock shelter, Bladen Nature Reserve, Belize(Keith M. Prufer) Maya processing maize, Santa Cruz, Belize(Keith M. Prufer) According to a new study, more than half of the modern Maya genome is ...

Frederick Catherwood, English architect, illustrator, and adventurer, accompanied John Lloyd Stephens across Central America to explore and document Maya ruins (1839-1840 and 1841-1842). In this ...