Around eight years ago researchers uncovered the oldest and largest Mayan monumental structure in southern Mexico. The site ...

In 700-800 C.E., the ancient Maya would ascend a stairway to a temple at the pyramid’s top to offer gifts and sacrifices to the kingdom’s patron deity. Sculptural monuments lining the front of the ...

Climbing the temple of Kukulkán has been banned since 2008 to protect its structure and cultural significance, as per INAH's ...

Video shows a tourist scaling the steps of Mexico's Temple of Kukulcan as thousands of visitors flocked to the site to witness the spring equinox last week.

A German tourist was escorted from an archaeological complex when he climbed and attempted to evade security at a Mayan ...

This flat stone monument, which stands on a pyramid at the Maya site of Piedras Negras in northwestern Guatemala, shows Lady K'atun-Ajaw, Namaan-Ajaw seated cross-legged on a throne. Her three ...

The Maya and Toltec vision of the world and the universe is revealed in their stone monuments and artistic works. The fusion of Mayan construction techniques with new elements from central Mexico make ...

Thanks to the relatively recent decipherment of Maya script, we can now read the images and the writing on their monuments as the names and histories of actual rulers. In the course of the ...

In this feature, you can actually "read" a passage of glyphs carved into an ancient Maya stela, or dedicatory stone monument. You can both read the ancient Maya (transcribed using the Roman ...