Deep inside the forested region of Campeche, researchers studying laser-based LiDAR data noticed shapes that did not match ...

Maya Millete, a 39-year-old mother of three, disappeared from her South Bay home in 2021, and her husband, Larry Millete, was arrested and charged with her murder, though her body has yet to be ...

A vast, 3,000-year-old earthwork hidden in the jungle of southern Mexico may represent one of the earliest known attempts to create a "cosmogram", a map of the cosmos in monumental form, according to ...

Researchers propose Aguada Fénix’s vast architecture forms a cosmogram aligning structures with Mesoamerican calendar sunrises and directions today. Color-coded pigment caches and marine shells in ...

Five years ago, archaeologists announced they had discovered a massive Maya structure in southeastern Mexico. Built between 1000 and 800 B.C.E., the complex is known as Aguada Fénix, and researchers ...

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 ...

A monumental complex built by the Maya around 3,000 years ago was modeled on a map of the cosmos, new fieldwork has revealed. A detailed survey of the Aguada Fénix site reveals that not only was the ...

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 ...

The world the Maya made has been shrouded by jungle for centuries. Now, a tool called lidar is revealing its staggering scale and sophistication. An aerial view hardly hints at the true size of ...

Three days after Israel launched its ground offensive to seize Gaza City, tens of thousands of Palestinians are moving south in search of relative safety. As the operation began, Israeli military ...