It’s smaller than Tikal and Chichén Itzá , but it was ruled by one of the most famous Maya kings: Pakal the Great. Image caption, You’ve now arrived in Mayapan, one of the last great cities ...

Often referred to as the last great Mayan capital, Mayapan offers a compact yet richly detailed glimpse into the Maya ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya city of Chichén Itzá, in the sparse shade of a tropical tree, a voice ricochets wildly up the mouth of a well. “¡Lo vi! ¡Lo vi!” ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

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Founded in about 1000 A.D., the Mayapan Archeological Zone was once the capital of the Yucatan and the hub of social and political activities. Between then and around 1440 – when the city was ...

The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish invaders whose hegemonic rule did so much to wipe out the ancient Maya script. Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes ...

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