Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

If you're traveling to Cancun in the near future, chances are some relaxation and week-round pampering in a five-star resort ...

Behind the debate over the Maya Train, as the project is known, is the question of what to do to improve social conditions in the Yucatán, which historically has been left out of the development and ...

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Nowadays, the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala, have been largely reclaimed by the jungle. Howler monkeys jump from pyramid to pyramid. Bats hide in the crevices of abandoned ...

Riviera Maya, stretching along Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is known for its turquoise Caribbean waters, white sand beaches, ...

The fall of the ancient Maya civilisation came gradually — as did the disappearance of its centres of power, each one slowly reclaimed by the creeping jungle. Mighty cities were lost for centuries, ...

Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

As you look up from your beach chair in Tulum, you’ll marvel at the blue skies, palm trees and Mayan ruins. Tulum, along the Riviera Maya, is home to some of Mexico’s best preserved archaeological ...

In mid-2020, Mexico began work on Tren Maya, a 1,000-mile long railway network lopping together the nation’s Mayan sites. Future travelers to Kohunlich, a 2,000-year-old Mayan city on the border of ...