From an observation point on a nearby pyramid, the early Maya could watch the sun rise behind these buildings and mark the summer and winter solstices (the longest and shortest days of the year ...

On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya ... sun and Holtún but apparently also the role of that sun and the cenote in the siting and orientation of Chichén Itzá’s El Castillo ...

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ... and around its 180-foot-tall pyramid in this soaring aerial ...

In Guatemala’s Tikal National Park, which was once the center of the Maya civilization, archaeologists discovered ... which leads to monumental structures like the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. In ...

In a painted mural displayed in a pyramid that ... and didn’t grow well near Maya cities. Some scholars believe drought led to the downfall of the Classic Maya civilization.

After scaling an ancient Mayan site, tourists were apprehended for disregarding rules and disrespecting a centuries-old temple complex ...

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 ...