The Mayan Ruins in Copan, Honduras are amazing. They are also some of the best representations of the amazing and often deadly culture surrounding the Mayans.

In January 2023, Mayan descendants blocked roads leading to the Mayan ruins of Chichén Itzá for more than five consecutive days, according to Telemundo. The sellers set up protest lines and ...

A team of archaeologists in Mexico excavating Mayan ruins near the ancient walled city of Tulum discovered a sealed cave filled with human and animal remains that could be over 1,000 years old.

4. Campeche's Edzná, Mexico Despite being one of the most significant Mayan ruins, Edzná receives fewer visitors in a year than Chichen Itza does in a day.

Multiple ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico are inaccessible due to cartel violence in a blow to tourism in the country’s southern state. Mexico’s government admitted that tourists can no longer ...

More Mayan sites have been found in the last 10 years than in the preceding 150. Here's how space technology is helping archaeologists uncover ancient ruins.

As you look up from your beach chair in Tulum, you’ll marvel at the blue skies, palm trees and Mayan ruins. Tulum, along the Riviera Maya, is home to some of Mexico’s best preserved ...

John Ydstie talks with Arthur Demarest, Ingram Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., about the discovery of Mayan hieroglyphs in Guatemala. A hurricane last ...

Archeologist objects; story goes viral. Jan. 5, 2012 — -- The textbooks will tell you that the Mayan people thrived in Central America from about 250 to 900 A.D., building magnificent temples ...