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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.