Climbing the pyramid has been banned to protect the nearly 1,000-year-old structure. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest ... Spanish for "place of the ceiba tree," Seibal had a checkered history. First inhabited in the Middle Preclassic ...

When the people of Holmul added a new layer ... And then, all of a sudden, we were in the middle of the most exciting part of Maya history.” The story of the discovery of the Kaanul, or Snakes ...

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 ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created ... likely had abundant crops when Maya civilization collapsed during the eighth and ninth ...

With modern day Maya still living where their ancestors once did, these discoveries help them to recover and reconnect to the parts of their history that were so brutally destroyed by the invading ...