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 ...

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 ...

Its imposing palaces, extensive administrative buildings, and temples filled with expressive bas-relief sculptures set Palenque apart from other Maya sites in Mexico, and it even rivals the ...