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 ...

Spanning about 16.6 square kilometers, Valeriana is considered second in density only to the famous Maya city of Calakmul.

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 ...

The Classic Maya civilization grew to about 40 ... when we saw the reign of cities like Tikal, Bonampak, Calakmul and ...

Calakmul, Tikal, Copán, Cobá and Chichen Itza. Each city had different kings and queens. Within each Maya region, the Maya cleared vast areas of rainforest to make way for their cities and farms.

Nine years ago, Golden and his longtime collaborator, Brown University bioarchaeologist Andrew Scherer, identified this site and the surrounding 100 acres as a major city in the ancient Maya kingdom ...

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 ...