A massive platform hidden in a southern Mexico jungle for 3,000 years actually is a giant map of the Maya order of the ...

"My colleagues have hung from this monument, unfurling the banner behind me to make it even clearer that the Maya jungle is in danger. The Maya jungle in southeastern Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula, ...

WHY IT RATES: Swimming one of the still-pristine Mayan jungle's natural freshwater sinkholes is an indescribably awe-inspiring experience; and now visitors can experience four such ancient cenotes and ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) – Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense ...

The Mayan civilization was much bigger than anyone realized — on a par with ancient Greece or China, according to a major archaeological breakthrough. Researchers have digitally unearthed more than 60 ...

Welcome to Chichén Itzá. From up here, El Castillo rises out of the jungle like it has been waiting a thousand years for this flyover. Look at those steps. Sharp lines, perfect symmetry, light slicing ...

I've been living in Mexico recently where I've learned to speak the Yucatec Maya language, the indigenous language of the Yucatan peninsula which has been spoken in this region for thousands of years.

Advanced laser mapping has revealed more than 60,000 ancient Mayan structures beneath the jungles of northern Guatemala. Set across dozens of hidden cities, the discoveries include houses, palaces and ...

Laser-toting archaeologists have discovered an entire new city in the Central American jungle. National Geographic reported Thursday that researchers have uncovered proof that Mayan civilization was ...

Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala’s ...