Limestone is soft when first cut and hardens with age. Ordinary Maya homes were not built on platforms like the city temples and palaces but on ground level. They were built in an oval shape ...
Imagine traveling deep into the Yucatán jungle and surprising an entire village by speaking their ancient Mayan language! That’s exactly what happens in this incredible video as an American, after ...
After two years of dialogue and coordinated work between the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and ejidal authorities, the ancient Maya city of Ichkabal in Quintana Roo, Mexico, ...
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 ...