Mexico City - Mexican experts have discovered that the main pyramid at Mexico's Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza was at least partially built ... He said it may confirm that the Mayas included symbolic ...

While other Maya settlements like Chichen Itza remained inhabited well into the 12 th century C.E., Tikal is thought to have collapsed around the year 900. To this day, the reasons for its ...

A scholar in Mayan history would surely argue that what is now Mexico’s most famous archaeological site was never exactly lost. While Chichen Itza had ... drew up maps of Hampi, the ancient ...

Mexico’s Maya and Aztec pyramids deserve a spot high on your travel ... which caused cracks in the structure. The above map of Mexican pyramids shows several impressive ruins located along the country ...

and Tikal. Fieldwork on the ground is yet to be conducted by archaeologists, but based on remote sensing data, which maps entire landscapes under dense forests in minute detail, it seems this lush and ...

only LiDAR maps, because no one has ever been there with local residents, possibly suspecting that ruins may lie beneath the mounds of earth. Although this study is the first to reveal Maya ...

A huge Maya city has been found under a jungle in ... The complex, named Valeriana, was uncovered using Lidar, a type of laser survey that maps structures buried beneath vegetation.

Constructed over 1,200 years ago, the imposing 65m-tall (213ft) Temple IV at Tikal ... to each by roads that the Maya likely traversed on foot. "As we get to map more and more of the Yucatán ...

The Maya civilization is one of the biggest and most famous of pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas. For over 3,000 years, the Mayas lived throughout the Maya Region, which consisted of ...

After analyzing the remains of 64 ancient sacrificed individuals, most of whom were children, researchers have revealed new details about human sacrifice at the ancient Maya site of Chichén Itzá.