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

After months of disagreement and dispute, the North Texas town of Fairview agreed to participate in mediation with the Church ...

In recent years Lidar technology has also been used to reveal previously hidden cities near the iconic ancient temple of Angkor ... sq miles (14,000 sq km) of Guatemala's lowlands.

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

and temples filled with expressive bas-relief sculptures set Palenque apart from other Maya sites in Mexico, and it even rivals the grandeur of Tikal in modern-day Guatemala. Its secrets have been ...

Auld-Thomas saw an opportunity and decided to take a shot. He and his colleagues from Tulane University and Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History re-processed the 2013 lidar data ...

The Mayan civilization, which flourished in southeastern Mexico and Guatemala, has been excavated in large numbers even today. The great Mayan city of Copan, discovered in the jungles of western ...

Restoration work at the site of a "key" ancient Egyptian temple is revealing long-hidden colorful details in its decorations. The Temple of Esna, located on the west bank of the Nile over 30 miles ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a 2,000-year-old temple believed to have been built by an ancient civilisation featured in Indiana Jones. Remains of ancient altars and inscribed marble ...

Dedicated to Lord Shiva, this temple is one of the most remote and sacred pilgrimage sites, associated with the legendary Mount Kailash. The journey to the temple is challenging and offers ...

Fairview, a town 30 miles north of Dallas, announced a Zoning Defense Fund this month to protect the town from potential ...