Exploring near the Usumacinta River, located in the modern Mexican state ... of rulers of a Maya city—one that, while impressive, is still fuzzy in places. Carrasco says the Palenque known ...

Deep in the jungle of Mexico's state of Chiapas stands the ruins of a Maya city known today as Palenque. Surrounded by a thick canopy of cedar and mahogany, some 1,500 individual structures make ...

Palenque was a Maya city-state that was occupied from the late first millennium B.C. to around the 8th century A.D. The archaeological site contains some of the finest-known examples of Maya ...

Rather, they formed a network of city-state kingdoms with different complex trade networks and diplomatic relationships. Some major Maya cities include Tikal, Palenque, Calakmul, Chichen Itza ...

Tomorrow we plan to explore the nearby ruins of Palenque, a once powerful Maya city state which reached its height between 500 and 700 AD. For reasons that are not entirely clear — theories ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in the ruins of Palenque, an ancient city in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, have found a centuries-old, intricately carved Mayan nose ornament made of ...

Archaeologists unearthed the leftover food at the palace of the ancient Mayan city of Palenque, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a Jan. 10 news release.

Though much remains unknown about Kaanul, it’s thought that the polity emerged in the shadow of the glorious city-state Tikal, which had dominated the region throughout the Maya era. However ...

Towering monuments, politicians, bustling business people, a dense city center ... But 1,400 years ago, Palenque, one of the “most outstanding” Mayan cities, had all of the above.