“These findings challenge the traditional view that Maya cities — including their hinterland — were isolated city-states or ...

An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.

The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

Hidden beneath the forests of Mexico’s Campeche state lies an archaeological revelation: where scientists once saw empty ...

“These findings challenge the traditional view that Maya cities — including their hinterland — were isolated city-states or regional kingdoms,” Morales-Aguilar said. Instead, they paint a ...

The downfall of Maya city states was also sparked by warfare and the 16th-century conquest of the region by Spanish invaders.

A team of archaeologists has discovered more than 6,600 previously unknown structures linked to the Maya civilization in ...

For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed ... thousands of never-before-seen Maya structures as well as a large city that they named Valeriana after ...

For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient human history ... Archaeologists have found thousands of never-before-seen Maya structures as ...

The newly described city, named Valeriana, features a crowded urban landscape ... Since the 1940s, scientists have known parts of the Yucatán Peninsula, including the modern states of Campeche and ...