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 ...

However, archeologists have since found that the tablet features jaguar and royal imagery. Despite its apparent decay in Catherwood’s drawing, today’s scholars refer to the temple as “the most perfect ...

"The Maya regularly buried buildings and rebuilt on top of them," Scherer said in the statement. "But here, they buried the ...

Because of the great importance of religion in Maya life the members of our expedition were not surprised to find that most of the buildings in the seven ruined cities we discovered were temples ...

Research a range of traditional Maya buildings and homes. Compare and contrast these with buildings in Britain in the same era. Compile a class glossary of Maya terms and create a crossword with ...

Since Catherwood worked under a time limit documenting these new discoveries, he did various sketches and watercolors using a camera lucida (similar to a magnifying glass), which helped him draw the ...

The Maya people are remembered for amazing creations, like their spectacular buildings and beautiful objects made from jade, a rare and valuable material. They also invented groundbreaking ideas ...

Off to the east were the spectacular Maya pyramids and ruins of Tikal National ... a scattering of cattle, buildings and the occasional road. “All this has been deforested in the last five ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered asignificant find in Tikal, Guatemala. This altar, which was buried under the jungle ...

It will accompany the Maya Day Club, just next door. The hotel will include three dining spaces ... Art will be the unifying theme of Scottsdale’s next great neighborhood with extensive shade and ...

It will accompany the Maya Day Club, just next door ... of Scottsdale’s next great neighborhood with extensive shade and buildings designed with varying heights and uses," according to city ...