Other structures of note include the Castillo ... beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably well-preserved murals still ...

Centuries earlier, had Maya priests waited in this very well ... has been busy investigating and mapping the hundreds of ancient structures, promontories, and wells in the Chichén Itzá region.

The discovery of the 'Old Castle' reinforces the idea that there are still many questions to be answered about this ancient ...

A Minecraft player creates an incredible Maya-inspired temple that looks like it emerged from a jungle, like many real-world ...

Archaeologists haven’t mapped the settlement’s outer areas but expect to find more residential structures. Ancient Maya communities lived at X’baatún beginning as early as 300 B.C. and ...

In the heart of Mexico, special technology has uncovered a huge, thousand-year old city the size of Edinburgh. At one time the city is thought to have been home to more than 30,000 Maya people.

Warfare and trade were important aspects of Maya society and so was art and architecture. This is the ancient city of Tikal. 1300 years ago it would have been called 'Yax Mutal' and was home to ...

a star cluster that was sacred to the ancient Mayans. The clean and contemporary, curved white structures float dramatically above the lush, verdant backdrop of the mangrove forest, creating a ...

The Maya settlement, known as X’baatún ... but archaeologists hope to learn more as the project continues. One of the ancient structures at X’baatún. Photo from Juan Garcia Targa via ...