The explorer Jacques Soustelle called Bonampak "a pictorial encyclopedia of a Mayan city." Built along the Lacanjá River in the seventh and eighth centuries and eventually abandoned to the jungle ...

As someone who has lived in Mexico since 2018, and visited about 25 ruins sites all across the country, ruins are clearly some of my favorite places to see in Mexico. Some are more famous than ...

This sacred site was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucatán peninsula ... After the 13th century no major monuments seem to have been constructed at Chichen-Itza and the city rapidly ...

But for many past visitors, the ruins themselves were not the primary attraction: people flock to El Rey to mingle with the hundreds of iguanas that have invaded the former Mayan town, saying the ...