It is also an important area for water recharging for the whole Yucatan Peninsula, a key factor in the development of the Maya Culture in the Ancient City of Calakmul and its surroundings. Criterion ...

Those surveys revealed the buildings of the ancient Mayan city beneath the Earth's surface under modern infrastructure and ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from ... beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo ...

The cave is filled with hundreds of monumental relics from the ancient ... The Yucatan peninsula of Mexico is studded with monumental relics of the Maya people, whose cities drew upon an extensive ...

As he carves through dense jungle foliage with a sharpened sickle, 65-year-old Eliezer Mendez Díaz scours for building materials. He plans to make a sacred altar for the Maya rain god, Cháak, in ...