“We only really know about Tikal from Tikal. Whereas in Calakmul’s case, we know about them from everybody else,” Martin says. “It just sort of coalesced out of the mist. Little by little ...

The height of the empire was around the year 250 A.D. This is the period when we saw the reign of cities like Tikal, Bonampak ...

The first published account of this lost city was in 1567, from a Spaniard, Father Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada. Exploring near the Usumacinta River, located in the modern Mexican state of Chiapas ...