Mayan temples and pyramids are just as strong as skyscrapers. Discover the architectural tricks used by ancient Central American builders. The tallest temples in the Maya City of Tikal, including the ...

Lidar discoveries and recent excavations are forcing archaeologists to rethink ancient Maya political structures.

Eleven miles east of Rome, in the ancient city of Gabii, archaeologists unearthed a building complex that may represent the earliest instance of Roman monumental architecture. This enormous ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as ...

The themes include the use of slaves, Roman food and the art of Roman mosaics.

This entertaining reality TV parody introduces a Maya labourer who has designed his own nah, or traditional Maya home. He talks about his design, his tools and the building's sometimes bizarre ...

Michael Connor (Man)Sarita Choudhury (Sarita)Michael Connor (Artist)Michael ConorMaria Rosenblum (Maria) Brian P. Katz A portrait of the failed artist as a middle-aged man, "Roman Buildings ...

After the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, curators in Israel raced to lock their most precious museum items into safe storage. In ...

Maya Roman, whose cousin Yarden was kidnapped by Hamas in the October 7 attack, is meeting with senators on Capitol Hill to lobby for U.S. action to secure the release of the hostages.

One unsuspecting February morning in 1976, a 7.5 scale earthquake shook the Central American country of Guatemala. Originating from the Motagua Fault, the meeting point of the North American and ...