Archaeologists identified the ruins as residential structures ... officials said. Kohunlich was a large Maya settlement founded around 300 B.C., according to the institute. The city had homes ...

Located about an hour southwest of the popular travel destination of Bacalar, Mexico, you’ll find the Kohunlich Mayan Ruins (pronounced ko-hoon-leach). It is a popular day trip from Bacalar, and also ...

Satellites are helping scientists spot more ancient Mayan ruins than ever before, which is no small feat considering how thick the forest is in the indigenous group's ancestral lands ...

Mapping growing cities with satellite tech like space-based radar helps protect not only the exposed archaeology but also the harder-to-spot remains buried underground, added Agapiou, who is also ...

it would have performed its bobble dance on what are now the ruins of a platform on the top southwest corner of the structure. To the sky-gazing Maya, the pyramids in the Yucatán, others of which ...

The Maya city of Tikal was found to be just a fraction of an immense hidden metropolis Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough.

But for many past visitors, the ruins themselves were not the primary attraction: people flock to El Rey to mingle with the hundreds of iguanas that have invaded the former Mayan town, saying the ...

the Russian-born American took work drawing reconstructions of the ruins at Piedras Negras, a Classic Maya site on the border between Mexico and Guatemala (left). Later, while examining ...

A visit to Chichen Itza opens a window into the ingenuity of Mayan culture. This makes it one of the most visited ruins in the world. Petra, Jordan This ancient Nabataean city is known for its ...

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