Most people assume the world's largest pyramid is in Egypt, yet a giant structure in Mexico beats this by nearly double the ...

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

Over 6,500 previously unknown Maya structures, including an entire city with towering pyramids, were revealed in southeast ...

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

By analyzing an old lidar survey, researchers found evidence of more than 6,500 ancient structures in a previously unexplored ...

Lidar surveys are very useful in Mesoamerican archaeology, where swaths of jungle can quickly swallow up entire cities. Three years ago, a separate team mapped 30,000 square miles (78,000 square ...

Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, an area spanning what is now Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and southeastern Mexico, and which the Maya ...

An American student scanning pages and pages of mind-numbing laser images on Google was rewarded with the discovery of a sprawling Mayan city buried under a forest in Mexico. Luke Auld-Thomas ...

The Templo Mayor archaeological zone, a sacred site in the heart of Mexico City, has fully reopened to the public following ...

Across Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands have gone missing in a spiral of violence since the government deployed the army to combat drug trafficking in 2006.

More than 25 years after Mexico began recognizing dual nationals, some U.S.-born children of Mexican immigrants are claiming citizenship in the country that their parents once left. Jenny Aguayo ...

An agreement aimed at ensuring more regular water from Mexico to the United States has been reached, both governments said on Saturday, following a long period of tension over a decades-old treaty.