History of science, rediscovered -- Mathematics, the language of science -- Astronomy, sky watchers and more -- Cosmology, that old-time religion -- Physics, particle, voids, and fields -- Geology, ...
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 ...
Daniel H. James installs a drip rate monitor upon a flowstone in Grutas Tzabnah (Yucatán, Mexico) as part of the wider cave monitoring campaign. Stalagmites in Mexican caves reveal duration and ...
Daniel H. James, David Hodell, Ola Kwiecien, and Sebastian Breitenbach (L-R) at the Maya site of Labna in the Puuc region (Yucatán, Mexico), which was most likely abandoned during the Terminal Classic ...
More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping systems in the ancient world—a system that could predict solar eclipses for ...
The city of Sak-Bahlán, or the "Land of the White Jaguar," was home to the Lakandon-Ch'ol people, Maya who resisted Spanish conquest and are known today as the last Maya rebels of Chiapas, a state in ...