For over 1,100 years, the Maya built here, expanding the site until it covered an area of 25 square miles. In its prime, the city may have had 100,000 residents, and it was ruled by a single ...

Within their survey area, researchers found dramatic variations in how the ancient Maya modified their environment. In the ...

Most of the other Maya sites in the area are obscured by dense thickets of jungle, so this was a lucky break for Pugh and his colleagues. Still, the nearly knee-high vegetation wasn’t easy to ...

Maya area political map. Mesoamerican civilization and high culture of pre-Columbian Americas. Capitals, national borders and most important ancient cities. Illustration with English labeling. Vector.

This property, while nowadays almost uninhabited and covered by tropical forest, is the heartland of the area in which, from the mid-first millennium B.C. to about A.D. 1000, the Maya civilization ...

Would you rather book an excursion for the surrounding Costa Maya area? Check your cruise line’s offerings because ours had plenty of fun shore excursion options. Typical Costa Maya excursions ...

Taxis and buses are available in Playa del Carmen, Puerto Morelos, Puerto Aventuras, and other towns along the Riviera Maya, but if you plan to travel throughout this area, consider renting a car, as ...

Now, Hyatt has confirmed that the popular property in Mexico's Rivera Maya area will, in fact, reopen at the end of the year as the Alila Mayakoba, the first Alila property in the region. Alila is an ...