Throughout its nearly 1,000-year history, different peoples have left their mark on the city. The Maya and Toltec vision of the world and the universe is revealed in their stone monuments and artistic ...

T he archeology of Chichen Itza, one of the last Mayan city-states, is controversial and subject to ongoing debate due in ...

The tourist trespassed into a restricted area around 5 pm and climbed the pyramid A 38-year-old German tourist was apprehended at the ancient Mayan site of Chichen Itza in Mexico for disregarding ...

At the height of the Mayan empire 1,400 years ago ... Northern cities like Chichen Itza, experienced a slump but carried on for another century or so. But sometime before 1000 and 1100, the ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá ... He spoke only elementary Spanish, and because my Mayan is nonexistent, Pastor had to translate my questions ...

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 ...

Jade Skirt in AD732: Look at our beautiful city of Yax Mutul ... The remote villages continued the Mayan beliefs and language. In the late 19th and early 20th century, people began to study ...

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 ...

From Mayan ruins to the turquoise Caribbean Sea to ... the opportunity to swim in a cenote (a natural well) and a visit to the city of Valladolid. Reviewers enjoy the swim and praise their guides ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...