"In other words, the main plateau of Aguada Fénix is the largest construction in the pre-Hispanic Maya area," the researchers ...

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 ...

What if the rest of the Maya area was far more rural and what we had mapped so far was the exception instead of the rule?” Though it isn’t yet known why the Maya people moved on from this ...

After being apprehended, the tourist was escorted down the eastern side of the pyramid to avoid confrontations with the crowd ...

This property, while nowadays almost uninhabited and covered by tropical forest, is the heartland of the area in which, from the mid-first millennium B.C. to about A.D. 1000, the Maya civilization ...

Members of the three Maya communities were also recognized for carrying out conservation actions in the area on their own ...

The archaeological site of Palenque in the state of Chiapas is one of the most outstanding Classic period sites of the Maya area, known for its exceptional and well conserved architectural and ...

The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish invaders whose hegemonic rule did so much to wipe out the ancient Maya script. Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes ...

Whilst they guided him out of the area, dozens of tourists pounced on ... tourist has sparked fury for climbing the steps of the Mayan temple. In 2023, a Polish tourist was whacked over the ...

Kristin Braswell The Tulum Archaeological site is one of the most visited Mayan archaeological sites ... from the once-thriving pre-Columbian Mayans. The area isn't necessarily large nor is ...