No trip to Belize would be complete without visiting a Mayan ruin (or two), and one of the most famous of all is Xunantunich, also spelled Xunan Tunich. Nestled near the Guatemala border in ...

The second-largest intact tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Maya Region stretches tens of millions of acres through ...

Researchers excavating the ancient Mayan city of Dzibanche, on Mexico’s border with Belize, have uncovered a rare set of stucco reliefs that shed light on one of the region’s powerful 1st ...

The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's leaders.

Over the summer, 16 Commonwealth University students traveled together on a two-week, faculty-led study abroad program in ...

Two University of Houston archaeologists have made scientific history with the discovery of a Mayan king's tomb in Belize.

Her fascination with the ancient Maya writing system led her to do fieldwork in Belize, where she participated in an archaeological dig of an ancient Mayan ball court.