or traditional Maya home. He talks about his design, his tools and the building's sometimes bizarre features. The presenter outlines how it will contrast in its structure with the more prominent ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

However, archeologists have since found that the tablet features jaguar and royal imagery. Despite its apparent decay in Catherwood’s drawing, today’s scholars refer to the temple as “the most perfect ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...

The Maya people are remembered for amazing creations, like their spectacular buildings and beautiful objects made from jade, a rare and valuable material. They also invented groundbreaking ideas ...

The printed daguerreotypes were destroyed in the same fire that took their artifacts in 1842. Catherwood’s lithographs thereafter were the only record of many Maya sites, buildings, and artifacts.