He had a predilection for Maya ruins and, cutting through the lush vegetation of the Yucatán and Chiapas, he visited Palenque, Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, and in 1895, he arrived at Piedras Negras, being the ...

The cataract is aptly named Busilja, which is Mayan for ”smoking water.” That afternoon we reached the ruins at Piedras Negras (”black rocks”) in the dense brush on the Guatemalan shore.

This flat stone monument, which stands on a pyramid at the Maya site of Piedras Negras in northwestern Guatemala, shows Lady K'atun-Ajaw, Namaan-Ajaw seated cross-legged on a throne. Her three ...

It shakes up our picture of who the Maya were." The research examined three valleys, each containing the capital of an independent kingdom, ancient cities that are known today as Piedras Negras, La ...

Felipe Aguilar, Minister of Culture and Sports of Guatemala Piedras Negras is located in the UNESCO Maya Biosphere Reserve, which has archaeological sites and other tangible and intangible elements of ...