When people think of the pyramids, Mexico is one of the premier destinations that comes to mind. The Ancient Mayans of ...

“When you dig within a Mesoamerican pyramid, you find another that is older and smaller,” he says. In the ninth of 13 total layers, López Luján and his team have uncovered a small chest made ...

Uncover the secrets of Mexico's Mayan ruins, from Chichen Itza to Calakmul, these sites offer a glimpse into an ancient ...

Buried until the end of the 19th century, this pyramid, originally believed to be a mountain, is older than those at Giza, ...

Its main pyramid-temple, known as El Castillo or ... to show a heavy influence from the Toltecs, another indigenous Mesoamerican people with their main city at Tula (just outside modern Mexico ...

They built massive stone pyramids and elevated rectangular plazas ... started leveraging a new technology to find these hidden, Mesoamerican ruins: LIDAR, a system that can generate three ...