Hidden deep within the forests of Campeche, Mexico, Calakmul was once one of the largest and most powerful cities of the ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient Maya city, hidden in the Mexican jungle for more than a millennium. Located in the ...

A joint Slovenian-Mexican archaeological expedition has uncovered a previously unknown ancient city hidden beneath dense ...

One of the most important cities of Mayan civilization, Calakmul was once home to more than 50,000 inhabitants. Its golden age was in the Classic period (A.D. 250-900), when it battled for dominance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Temple of the Inscriptions at the ruins of the Maya city of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. Photograph by Jon G. Fuller, ...

While there is little debate that the Mayans had an amazing knowledge of numbers and astronomy, many of us hope their calculations regarding December 2012 being the end of the world are a bit off.

Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico is a Renomination and Extension of the existing 3,000 ha cultural World Heritage property, Ancient Maya City of Calakmul, ...

MEXICO CITY, Oct 27 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 27 story has been refiled to fix spelling of 'peel' in paragraph 6) A laser-powered study of the sprawling metropolis of Calakmul in southern Mexico offers ...

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With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. In recent years, archaeologists have turned to lasers in order to unearth previously hidden ancient ...

Since 1993, the Calakmul Archaeological Project has made an enormous contribution to interdisciplinary research, ensuring the integral conservation of the Outstanding Universal Value, as was ...