They used to sacrifice people here to the gods in times of drought and they've found all sorts of things at the bottom of cenotes, at the bottom of this cenote they've found skeletons of children, men ...

"There are about 1,000 registered cenotes in Yucatán," our tour guide proudly declares as he ushers us around Gran Museo del Munda Maya, a museum in Merida that showcases Mayan art and history. That's ...

Inhabitants of the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá are well-known for their practice of ritual human sacrifice. The most prevalent notion in the popular imagination is that of young Maya women being ...

Chichen Itza has gotten a bit of a bad reputation lately. After all, it does get throngs of tourists every day. Local people have obviously caught onto this. So they line the walking paths selling ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Tourists and archaeologists alike travel to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico to view the region's famous Mayan ruins. In fact, the ancient sites ...

Upon entering the city, the Gran Explanada greets us, setting to some of the most emblematic constructions including the Pirámide de Kukulcán, a colossal monument–selected as one of the Seven Wonders ...

Archaeologists are attempting to find out if there is more to the 1000-year-old structure than meets the eye, with a hi-tech survey of the World Heritage site. National Geographic reports the team of ...

The archaeological site of Chichen Itza is well known all around the world, and for good reason. The ancient city and Mayan ruins located here are some of the best preserved, and they date back as far ...

Travel Weekly’s Gay Nagle Myers is at the Iberostar Grand Paraiso in Mexico’s Riviera Maya. Her second dispatch follows. Click to read her first and third dispatches and view a slideshow from the trip ...

Archaeologists hope it will reveal a hidden "cenote" -- an underwater cavern This month, archaeologists in Mexico will begin excavating a secret tunnel thought to lead beneath a pyramid built by the ...