The cave is filled with hundreds of monumental relics from the ancient Mayan civilisation. A group of divers have connected two underwater caverns in eastern Mexico to reveal what is believed to ...

Sacrificial artifacts of the ancient civilization were also uncovered at least four hundred miles away in the old Mayan city of Chichen Itza in Mexico, where mysterious underwater caves were ...

in the beliefs and world vision of the ancient Maya of Yucatán. Archaeologists had known that the Maya regarded both caves and cenotes as mouths that opened into an otherworld inhabited by Chaak ...

Found in the Yucatán Peninsula, this natural cave is a 60-meter-wide limestone sinkhole. The Sacred Cenote was a symbol of life, spirituality, and cultural heritage for the Maya people and was ...

“Since then, we haven’t seen any trace of hunters.” Caves were sacred to the ancient Maya, who saw them as portals to Xibalba, the underworld. Belize is home to hundreds of caverns where ...

They hang from the cold, stone ceiling of an ancient Maya temple ... inside a “bat house”—a cave filled with death bats, called Camazotz by the Maya. The bats had snouts like blades, which ...

Human skeletons, ancient Maya pottery and a network of chambers home to memories from centuries past await within the cave walls. Hidden within the Tapir Mountain Nature Reserve about 20 miles ...

New details of our past are coming to light, hiding in the nooks and crannies of the world, as we refine our techniques to go looking for them. Most lauded is the reconstruction of the evolution ...