The Temple of Kukulkan In late February this year, I set foot on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to explore the ancient Maya city ...

Tikal National Park in northeast Guatemala is a phenomenal and almost otherworldly place to visit. With its massive pyra ...

For history buffs, it's also a gateway to one of Mexico's most famous archaeological sites, the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza ...

Leilani Osmundson Chichén Itzá is a large Mayan archaeological site and one of the most notable and recognized landmarks on the Yucatán peninsula ... the ruins is the pyramid-like El Castillo ...

Founded in 200 B.C., it emerged as a regional superpower that dominated other city-states stretching from the Yucatán Peninsula to ... Six temple pyramids dominate the skyline, the tallest ...

It’s a pyramid that narrows to a dome ... important archaeological discoveries in Central America and the Yucatán Peninsula,” Pfeiffer said. “There was also a great interest in Mexican ...

It's also easy to get out and explore, with buses to downtown Cancún for shopping as well as easy booking of excursions to Mayan pyramids ... of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula – El Cozumeleño ...

Is climbing the pyramids at the Teotihuacán religious ... and had major political influence in the Yucatán peninsula during the Preclassic and Classic Maya periods. We don’t know what the ...

Who hasn’t dreamed of visiting the beaches of Cancun or the Riviera Maya at least once? This Caribbean paradise, located in ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

After several warnings from friends saying I should avoid the peninsula altogether due to overtourism, I’m on a mission to discover less-frequented spots. If I can find them. In recent years ...