Ancient Mesoamericans built their pyramids in stages ... in all the cities around it and created what might have been a Maya empire. Of course there are still many questions about the Snakes ...

The Maya built many temples, palaces, causeways, schools and marketplaces. They took millions of hours to build, from cutting and moving the stone to finishing the decoration. The royals and ...

The explorer Jacques Soustelle called Bonampak "a pictorial encyclopedia of a Mayan city." Built along the Lacanjá River in the seventh and eighth centuries and eventually abandoned to the jungle ...

Golden and Scherer believe the wall was built centuries before the Maya collapse. In earlier excavations near ... unearths remnants of a civilization of warriors, artists, and kings that still feels ...

That the Maya built their cities based on constellations ... He pored over books about the civilization, studying every element of its culture. He was especially interested in Mayan astronomy ...