Unlike other Mayan ruins, Cobá’s large network of ancient ... which is the tallest pyramid in the Yucatan peninsula at 137 ft ...

The first real awakening of outside in Yucatan and Guatemala came with the ... We are as certain that there are in this strip important Maya ruins unvisited by archaeologists as men can be certain ...

A lawyer ostensibly on a mission for the U.S. State Department, Stephens, in 1839, went in search of Mayan ruins, which were then all but unknown. He was accompanied by architect Frederick ...

The ruins of the ceremonial structures at Uxmal represent the pinnacle of late Maya art and architecture in their design ... 7500 km 2 in the south-western part of the Mexican state of Yucatan. The ...

If you're on a Mayan history kick, you should check out the small site at Cobá, about 30 miles northwest of Tulum. Cobá doesn't feature the restored, pristine sites of Tulum, nor does it sit ...

After the 13th century no major monuments seem to have been constructed at Chichen-Itza and the city rapidly declined after around 1440 A.D. The ruins were not excavated ... vestige of the Maya-Toltec ...

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 ...