At Copan, a Maya site in Honduras ... “And now, we only have the buildings that survived. So it’s like a natural selection process.” But some materials seem to show more intention ...

Every little piece we can obtain from the excavations is fundamental, like a piece of the larger puzzle we are putting ...

Many ancient civilizations erected buildings and structures that still ... engineers who poured thick concrete sea barriers, to Maya masons who crafted plaster sculptures to their gods, to Chinese ...

Inspired by La Blanca’s artfully angled room toppers, Gilabert-Sansalvador launched a project to draw, digitize and analyze vaulted buildings throughout the Maya lowlands of southern Mexico and ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

"It does not reveal a different perspective on Maya urbanism and landscapes, it actually shows us that the perspective we already had is pretty accurate," he said adding the "number of buildings ...

At Copan, a Maya site in Honduras ... “And now, we only have the buildings that survived. So it’s like a natural selection process.” But some materials seem to show more intention ...