Coba Mayan Ruins has several distinct areas or building groups. In each, you’ll see pyramids, other buildings and steles ...

November 2022, Chichen Itza, Mexico In the Mexican city of Chichen Itza, a tourist climbed onto the sacred Mayan temple, the ...

Rising through a clearing in the jungle of the Yucatán, a monumental Maya pyramid appears to touch the sky in Catherwood’s illustration of the Pyramid of Kulkulcán. Although parts of the structure are ...

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ago. The site was a thriving settlement during the Classic Maya ...

Mexico’s ‘yellow city’ is painted in Vatican colours Credit: Marco Bottigelli/Moment RF There are 12 Mayan pyramids as well as vestiges of other pre-Columbian buildings. The Christian ...

It then sets in line with the pyramid’s western staircase and the nondescript Holtún well. The Maya, to calibrate their calendar, which is justly famous to this day, had to determine the days ...

Scattered throughout Mexico, you'll find the ruins of several ancient civilizations, including those of the Aztec, Maya and Toltec people. Many of these sites feature impressive pyramids standing ...

What was the climate like? How well adapted to living there do the children think the Maya were? This could also be used to investigate pyramids, comparing Maya pyramids with those in Ancient Egypt.