Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World Heritage site, the ruins of Palenque lie in the lush basin of the Usumacinta River in the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Along with other children, I broke away from the tour group and wandered among the chambers inside the ancient Mayan edifices. I ran my hands along the walls, imagining that if I pressed a stone ...

An ancient Mayan altar in Tikal, a 2,400-year-old city in Guatemala, evidences a quasi-imperial control system before the ...

Alongside the crab remains, they found a stucco head that appeared to represent an ancient ruler of Palenque, a ceramic vessel with an image of a Maya deity, and a pipe shaped like a river prawn.

The cave is filled with hundreds of monumental relics from the ancient Mayan civilisation. A group of divers have connected two underwater caverns in eastern Mexico to reveal what is believed to ...

How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an ...