Hey there, fellow traveling families! If you’re planning your next adventure with the kiddos to the beautiful Riviera Maya in ...

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

where you’ll find the Isla Mujeres Mayan Ruins of Ixchel (next on this list). You can catch the Cancun to Isla Mujeres ferry ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén ... Located in what is today southwestern Belize, Caracol, Spanish for "snail," rivaled anything in Belize today.

Caracol is one of Belize's most stunning pieces of ancient history – the Maya archaeological site is renowned for its impressive size, being the tallest human-made structure in Belize.

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ... them for months, visiting ruins and collecting photos of glyphs.

The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

in an internet survey in 2007. The site is one of the most famous Mayan ruins, and is divided into two unequal sections known as Chichén Viejo and Chichén Nuevo (the old and new sections).