Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya, and the site is known for just that: beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas has remarkably well ...

That this ancient city had been hiding just a short stroll away from contemporary Maya civilization shows just ... “Because LiDAR allows us to map large areas very quickly, and at really high ...

Find out who the ancient Maya were, where they lived and what they did. What were homes in the ancient Maya civilisation like? Find out what Maya homes were made of and what they looked like.

This relatively new technology sends laser pulses into the ground to create maps ... with the Mayan city being the latest ...

while looking at a map of ancient ruins on the Yucatán Peninsula, Gadoury realized the Maya had built some of their cities inland, far from water. This was unlike most other great civilizations ...

The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and bark paper. Using an interactive map, visit 15 of the better ...