I'm a Guatemalan who's watched tourists repeat the same mistakes during trips to the Maya ruins. Many people mistime their visits and enter the parks at peak heat and humidity. Some tourists ...
An airborne lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de ...
It's not every day that modern researchers uncover an ancient lost city. But for a network of scientists exploring Mexico's central Yucatan Peninsula, that very phenomenon is becoming so common that ...
Located in the city of Kuluba, which is about 100 miles west of Cancun, the building itself is 180 feet long, 49 feet wide and 19 feet high, according to an announcement from Mexico’s National ...
An ancient Maya city, Los Abuelos, hidden for nearly 3,000 years in Guatemala's jungles, has been unearthed. Dating back to 800-500 BCE, this sprawling urban center features pyramids, plazas, and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Temple of the Inscriptions at the ruins of the Maya city of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. Photograph by Jon G. Fuller, ...
Deep in the jungle lie the ruins of Palenque — towering temples built by a civilization that mysteriously collapsed. What really happened to the Maya? War, drought… or something we still don’t ...
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