Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

A 2,000-year-old Maya burial in Belize has revealed some wild insights into the nature of pre-Hispanic removals. By ...

Warfare and trade were important aspects of Maya society and so was art and architecture. This is the ancient city of Tikal. 1300 years ago it would have been called 'Yax Mutal' and was home to ...

Going to war and buying and selling things were important parts of Maya society. Art and architecture were important too. This is the ancient city of Tikal. 1300 years ago it would have been ...

Buried beneath it, he says, is a pyramid. In 700-800 C.E., the ancient Maya would ascend a stairway to a temple at the pyramid’s top to offer gifts and sacrifices to the kingdom’s patron deity.

had acted as a sacred sundial and timekeeper for the ancient Maya on the two days of the year, May 23 and July 19, when the sun reaches its zenith. At that moment it is vertically overhead ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created by severe, prolonged drought. But new research led by Brandeis anthropologist Charles ...

The view from the top of Tikal’s Pyramid of the Lost World over the dense forest of the Maya Biosphere Reserve and Temple IV. The fall of the ancient Maya civilisation came gradually — as did ...

The ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá, long known as a site of human sacrifice, has fascinated millions of visitors from ...

Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably well ...

Hotel Esencia’s spa is ready for its grand reveal.

A German tourist was arrested in Mexico for desecrating the sacred Mayan temple, Chichen Itza, during a bi-annual 'Kukulkan's ...