Be sure to read this comprehensive local's guide to incredible Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula before your next trip to ...

5 Mayan ruins to visit in North and Central America—from Belize’s most haunted ruin to Mexico’s most famous pyramid. ... celestial symbols, and mythological scenes.

The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

For Mayan ruins, skip crowded Chichen ... Uxmal's tallest and most central structure, the 115-foot Pyramid of the Magician, is decorated with symbols depicting the god of rain, Chaac.

Mexico’s mysterious Mayan ruins at Palenque, now accessible from the air June 12, 2014 Visitors to Palenque, Mexico, in the southern state of Chiapas, can explore Mayan ruins.

SOARING TO MAYAN RUINS Palenque, hidden for nearly 900 years, is open to tourist trade more easily. ... which shows Pakal reclining awkwardly and surrounded by symbols from Mayan cosmology.

The mysteries surrounding the life and death of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of the ancient Mayan city of Caracol in Belize, are about to get some answers. More than 40 years after uncovering ...

Most Mayan cities follow a geometric order, but the 150-acre main ruins of Uxmal, more compact than those of Chichen Itza, are oriented according to astronomical patterns, such as the cycles of Venus.

Mexico City - From seat 7A, I look down to see miles of dense rain forest blanketing the ground below me. I'm 10 000 feet above the Mexican state of Chiapas, coming in for a landing at Palenque ...

More Mayan sites have been found in the last 10 years than in the preceding 150. Here's how space technology is helping archaeologists uncover ancient ruins.

A team of archaeologists in Mexico excavating Mayan ruins near the ancient walled city of Tulum discovered a sealed cave filled with human and animal remains that could be over 1,000 years old.