Encircled by thick jungle, Palenque is one of the most impressive and mysterious of all ... the Temple of the Inscriptions, a 90-foot-high pyramid containing some of the most detailed Maya ...

Archaeologists discovered a 5th-century painted altar at Tikal with undeniable Teotihuacan artistic style, proving people from central Mexico established a physical presence in the Maya city The ...

it matches up with all synodic periods of the visible planets, explaining it as a planetary astronomical cycle. What is interesting here is that the Mayan counting system is base-20 (vigesimal).

Across southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, ancient Maya cities lie scattered like puzzle pieces waiting to be ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it appears foreigners from Teotihuacan built it.

and the Temple of Inscriptions, said to be one of the most profuse sources of glyphic text from the Maya world. It maps nearly 200 years of Palenque's history. The three rulers also commissioned ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain ... dominates the city, while the Temple of the Warriors features murals of battle scenes and village life.