Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

Insights The world’s largest temples cover a variety of religions and beliefs.  Some of these temples have been around for ...

The Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán ... Temple of Ah Cacao and Temple of the Masks, Tikal, Guatemala Deep within the rainforest of Guatemala sits the ancient city of Tikal and its numerous ...

Unlike the drier lowland metropolises of Tikal and Calakmul, Palenque was refined and sophisticated, its elegant stucco-covered pyramids and watchtower nestled in the foothills of the mountains ...

Contemporary with Palenque and Tikal, Uxmal is an architectural gem ... From an observation point on a nearby pyramid, the early Maya could watch the sun rise behind these buildings and mark ...

Lidar can even shake up archaeologists’ understandings of thoroughly researched sites; in 2021, a lidar survey of Tikal ... We also found a large city with pyramids right next to the area ...

and the walls are emblazoned with murals of pyramids in the ancient city of Tikal. The owner is Noe Rodriguez, who was born in San Marcos, Guatemala, and many of his staff at Tikal Mayan are ...

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with stepped temple pyramids to rival Chichén Itzá, Río Bec, and Tikal.