ancient culture that held one of the largest empires in the ancient world from roughly 1,800 B.C. to 900 A.D., read on to discover some amazing facts about the Mayans. There are still Mayan cities ...

ancient culture that held one of the largest empires in the ancient world from roughly 1,800 B.C. to 900 A.D., read on to ...

Only when local Maya learned to store water by digging chultunes ... Spanish for "place of the ceiba tree," Seibal had a checkered history. First inhabited in the Middle Preclassic Period around ...

Oxwatz Nature Park, an ecotourism site in the Yucatán peninsula, brought in a joint team of Mexican and Spanish ...

Life is good for us for another 500 years or so until the Europeans arrive – that’s when the Maya civilisation begins to disappear. And all this? Well, it’ll be History. He tells us about ...

Encircled by thick jungle, Palenque is one of the most impressive and mysterious of all Mexico’s ancient Maya sites. Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World ...

Palenque's wealth of epigraphy (inscriptions) and recorded history has helped archaeologists to build the first time line of rulers of a Maya city—one that, while impressive, is still fuzzy in ...

The court is one of the smallest in Maya history. Image caption, This is the ‘Great Maya ball court’ in Chichén Itzá. It was completed in the 9th century and is one of the largest ball ...

Players will learn things like the meaning behind various Mayan artifacts, the difference between myths and historical facts, and the geography of where the Mayan civilization existed. Mayan Mysteries ...

Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said the 40kg-stone (88lb) constituted a precious and unusual find. "It is rare to find hieroglyphic writing at this Maya site ...