A new Mayan city has been found underground in Mexico, on the Yucatán Peninsula ... Enclosed plazas, temples, and ball courts ...

November 2022, Chichen Itza, Mexico In the Mexican city of Chichen Itza, a tourist climbed onto the sacred Mayan temple, the ...

Archaeologists mapping the well-preserved Maya settlement of X’baatún found dozens of ruined structures dating back over 800 years. Photo from Xavier Sicart Chavarría via INAH Hidden beneath the ...

Mexico’s ‘yellow city’ is painted in ... Like many churches in Yucatán, it was built on top of a Mayan temple. The handsome city of Mérida and the Mayan site of Dzibilchaltún lie just ...

Kristin Braswell The Tulum Archaeological site is one of the most visited Mayan archaeological sites ... the site showcases several templos (temples) and castillos (castles) from the once-thriving ...

El Castillo (The Castle), a 98-foot-tall pyramid, dominates the city, while the Temple of the Warriors features murals of battle scenes and village life. Tulum was the largest Maya coastal city ...

This ancient Maya temple near Mexico’s Calakmul Biosphere Reserve is home to six woolly false vampire bats. Unlike many other species, these bats roost in groups of between four and eight ...

Photo from Xavier Sicart Chavarría via INAH Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s ...

Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s but hadn’t tried mapping it — until recently.