Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

Communities and cooperatives from Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, and Yucatán, together with UNESCO and the Mundo Maya Organization, presented a series of tourism experiences to position the ...

Discovering Maya cities used to involve bushwhacking through the jungle, schlepping gear and sidestepping snakes. And over ...

It was a time when the Maya created great artwork and amazing architecture across the region (see “Of Majesty and Mayhem,” p. 49). Recent finds may yet force scholars to redefine the beginning ...

The city played a key role in the history of this region for more than twelve centuries and is characterized by well-preserved structures providing a vivid picture of life in an ancient Maya capital.

Before the Spanish colonised Central America in the 16th century, the ancient Maya were one of the most sophisticated civilisations in the Western Hemisphere. They developed a complex calendar ...

There’s an especially high concentration here, in the northern Petén region, scattered around the Maya Biosphere Reserve, one of the largest tracts of forest left north of the Amazon. Flores itself ...

Each city had different kings and queens. Within each Maya region, the Maya cleared vast areas of rainforest to make way for their cities and farms. They also redirected water to create reservoirs ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious ... City that exerted a strong influence over the region. Before this discovery, which was published on ...