The site is located in the central/southern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula, in southern Mexico and includes the remains of the important Maya city Calakmul, set deep in the tropical forest of the ...

2023 45COM 7B.99 - Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche (Mexico) (C/N 1061bis) 2021 44COM 7B.78 - Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, ...

the site’s Maya name, seems to have had a special status in the Snake kingdom. Its princes went to Calakmul for education, and three of them wedded Snake princesses. Unlike the martial city of ...

The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, ...

The first published account of this lost city was in 1567 ... at the site suggest the site came under attack by another Maya center, Calakmul, in 599 and again in 611. "This attack was the ...

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 ...

which was important to the Maya, present even in their creation story. Two of the stars lined up perfectly with the major sites El Mirador and Calakmul. But where another city should have been ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...