For over 1,100 years, the Maya built here, expanding the site until it covered an area of 25 square miles. In its prime, the city may have had 100,000 residents, and it was ruled by a single ...

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

The site is located in the central/southern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula, in southern Mexico and includes the remains of the important Maya city Calakmul, set deep in the tropical forest of the ...

In total, plan to spend about 30-45 minutes at the Mayan Ruins El Rey, but it’s one of the best things to do in Cancun without leaving the city. El Meco (AKA La Naranja) is a smaller site with ...

The city was founded during the Late Preclassic, which corresponds to the beginning of the Christian era. Its first inhabitants probably migrated from other sites in the nearby region. They always ...

He was able to match 117 ancient Maya cities with the stars of the constellations, and even found that the most brilliant stars lined up with the largest sites. It was an amazing discovery.

The discovery was made possible by new laser survey technology and archival research from Luke Auld-Thomas and his team, who ...

At the height of the Mayan empire 1,400 years ago, the city of Tikal in modern-day Guatemala was a bustling metropolis the size of London during the Middle Ages. But when the Spanish conquistadors ...

Several million Maya lived in southeastern Mexico and northern ... they excavated a 20-foot section of a wall at Lacanjá Tzeltal, an archaeological site in southeastern Mexico that was once a major ...

Records at the site suggest the site came under attack ... By the time the Spanish got to Chiapas in the 16th century, the Maya had abandoned the city.

A previously unknown ancient Maya city has been discovered in the jungles ... stronghold fall in the late 17th century. The Ocomtun site has a core area, located on high ground surrounded by ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...