The explorer Jacques Soustelle called Bonampak "a pictorial encyclopedia of a Mayan city." Built along the Lacanjá River in the seventh and eighth centuries and eventually abandoned to the jungle ...

Among these are the Mayan cities, full of splendour and mystery ... the Copán valley was almost completely abandoned around 300 BC, until the early 7 th century. It was at this time that the ...

This is one of the best-preserved Mayan cities and one of Mexico's top-visited attractions. Most cities were abandoned by 900 ...

The construction of elite building stopped after 800, and a gradual population decline ensued. By the time the Spanish got to Chiapas in the 16th century, the Maya had abandoned the city.

one of the most important sites of the Mayan civilization, were not excavated until the 19th century. The ruined citadel and imposing public squares reveal the three main stages of development before ...

The great Maya civilisation collapsed not long after ... explorers travelling in southern Mexico and Guatemala came across huge abandoned cities hidden in dense jungle. One of the first modern ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...