A Minecraft player creates an incredible Maya-inspired temple that looks like it emerged from a jungle, like many real-world ...

Through a playful lens, Heritage Plaza resembles a vertical Slinky Dog toy, its shining midsection bookended by brown granite facades at the crown and base designed to resemble a Mayan temple.

Palenque’s most notable ruin is the Temple of the Inscriptions, a 90-foot-high pyramid containing some of the most detailed Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found. The monument was assumed to ...

El Castillo (The Castle), a 98-foot-tall pyramid, dominates the city, while the Temple of the Warriors features murals of battle scenes and village life. Tulum was the largest Maya coastal city ...

A spectral bat in a cage targets a laboratory mouse in leaf litter on a table. Scientists studying these carnivorous bats in Mexico haven’t yet seen them take prey in the wild, so they film them ...

Indiana Jones has a lot to live up to! Escape Lab, located in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, invites you to discover Maya ...

As far back as 3500 years ago millions of Maya people lived in this area in different cities, ruled by kings, or queens. That there is a temple! It’s almost 1300 years old! Just imagine what it ...

The ancestral Mayan culture pays tribute to its god, Kukulkán, with the arrival of spring. He descends along the pyramid steps of the Chichen Itzá temple in Yucatán, Mexico, to fertilize Mother ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his Nepal visit on May 16 by offering prayers at the sacred Maya Devi Temple, Lumbini. This is Modi’s fifth visit to Nepal since 2004 continuing the tradition ...

Frederick Catherwood, English architect, illustrator, and adventurer, accompanied John Lloyd Stephens across Central America to explore and document Maya ruins (1839-1840 and 1841-1842). In this ...

As far back as 3500 years ago millions of Maya people lived in this area in different cities, ruled by kings, or queens. That there is a temple! It’s almost 1300 years old! Just imagine what it ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...