As someone who has lived in Mexico since 2018, and visited about 25 ruins sites all across the country, ruins are clearly ...

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 ...

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 ...

This sacred site was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucatán peninsula ... monuments seem to have been constructed at Chichen-Itza and the city rapidly declined after around 1440 A.D. The ...

mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and paper. Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of the better-known Maya sites.