One group, the Lacandon, led him to a Maya ruin (the site would later become known as Bonampak) where ... and the fog-shrouded ruins have excited the fancy of travelers and scholars ever since.

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old traditions, and an opportunity to learn about the country’s history from ...

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and it’s home to more Maya ruins than any of its neighbours. There’s an especially high concentration here, in the northern Petén region, scattered around the Maya Biosphere Reserve, one of the ...

During renovation work inside a museum in Croatia, archaeologists found some medieval ruins and confirmed a longstanding theory, photos show. Google Street View ...

Austrian ruins previously known as the Desolate Castle were actually once a Roman bridgehead fort. The site served as a strategic trade crossing for the Danube River as part of the historic Amber ...

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Tikal was home to at least 60,000 Maya and held sway over several other city-states scattered through the rain forest from the YucatánPeninsula to western Honduras. Though magnificent, the ruins ...

Photo by the National Institute of Anthropology and History Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de ...