Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended from Chichén ... Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of the better-known Maya sites.

Image caption, The cities were home to the nobles of society ... causing little to no harm to the environment. Draw a map of your own Maya city. Create a key to show where important places are ...

The Maya people are remembered for amazing creations ... They were experts at reading the stars and even built their cities as a map of the sky! They were also inspired by the creatures of ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula ... Auld-Thomas added that LiDAR has allowed them “to map large areas very quickly, and at really ...

LiDAR, he added, “allows us to map large areas very quickly, and at really high precision and levels of detail, that made us react, ‘Oh wow, there are so many buildings out there we didn’t ...

One day, while looking at a map of ancient ruins on the Yucatán Peninsula, Gadoury realized the Maya had built some of their cities inland, far from water. This was unlike most other great ...