In the middle of the Campeche jungle, at the base of the Yucatan Peninsula, lies the largest protected forest reserve in Mexico and one of the country's most underrated attractions: the ancient Mayan ...

An unprecedented light detection and ranging (LiDAR) survey of 650 square miles across northern Guatemala’s Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin (MCKB) has discovered 964 previously unknown ancient Maya ...

Thanks to the power of remote sensing lasers, scientists in Mexico have achieved vivid new insights into how people lived during the ancient Mayan empire’s powerful Kanu’l or Snake dynasty, from about ...

are about 35 miles south of the main road (Hwy. 186) deep in the forest. The only others visitors while I was there were the father-daughter hitchhikers from Fairbanks, Alaska, that I picked up. They ...

Deep in the jungles of Mexico lies Calakmul, once one of the most powerful cities in the ancient Maya world. For centuries, this massive kingdom rivaled other major Maya centers and played a central ...

"Just so you know up front, I'm not climbing all the way to the top." It was late on a warm, humid Yucatan day, and I'd pretty well drained my tank scaling a cute little number named Structure XIII on ...

Beekeepers near the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve are working with conservationists to provide water troughs for wild animals in an effort to reduce conflicts with farmers and livestock. More than 70 ...

The site is located in the central/southern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula, in southern Mexico and includes the remains of the important Maya city Calakmul, set deep in the tropical forest of the ...

Since 1993, the Calakmul Archaeological Project has made an enormous contribution to interdisciplinary research, ensuring the integral conservation of the Outstanding Universal Value, as was ...