The Maya settlement ... Photos show a few of these stone ruins, partially overgrown by the rainforest. A map shows the layout of X’baatún’s core area. The settlement’s name means ...
Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...