An Entire Lost Maya City Was Hiding in Plain Sight Within the Mexican Jungle, Discovered by Accident A groundbreaking ...

In this video I’m going to talk about how an 11 year old forest monitoring project which resulted in a Lidar survey, led to ...

A peninsula jutting into Guatemala’s Lake Petén Itzá is the site of the ancient Maya city of Nixtun-Ch’ich’. (Courtesy Timothy Pugh/Itza Archaeological Project) For years, archaeologist ...

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 ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá, in the sparse shade of a tropical tree, a voice ricochets wildly up the mouth of a well. “¡Lo vi! ¡Lo vi!” ...

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 ...

For a brief period one of those city-states prevailed and became the closest thing to an empire in Maya history. It was ruled by the Snake kings of the Kaanul dynasty, which until just a few ...

The Teenager and the Lost Maya City, a documentary from The Nature of Things, follows Gadoury on the adventure of a lifetime: a journey to Mexico to find out if he’s right. Gadoury first became ...

An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., entitled "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," highlighted the ...

Mexico’s Maya Train project has been hit by a major budget cut, while at least one other rail infrastructure program has seen ...

Tomb of Hasaw Chan K’awil, a mighty king, who freed our city from its enemies! Maya society was very complex. There were hundreds of cities. Different classes including: commoners, a middle ...