Chichén Itzá is a city in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula that thrived between the 9th and 13th centuries A.D. Although a wildly popular tourist attraction, archaeologists are still trying to figure out ...

Mexico is the North American nation with the most UNESCO World Heritage sites, thanks in large part to its rich history and well-preserved archaeological sites -- some of which are still being ...

Beneath the ceremonial heart of Chichen Itza (located in the Yucatan Peninsula of southeastern Mexico), archaeologists uncovered a chultun. It is a bottle-shaped chamber carved into limestone, ...

Chichen Itza has gotten a bit of a bad reputation lately. After all, it does get throngs of tourists every day. Local people ...

The Temple of the Inscriptions at the ruins of the Maya city of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. Photograph by Jon G. Fuller, VWPics/Redux Nestled in the jungles of the Yucatán, about 45 minutes from ...

Chichen Itza, on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, is dominated by gray limestone that was cut by hand and moved without any wheels. Once home to 30,000 people, Chichen Itza was the last major city ...

Fernando Barbachano puts aside his cup of black coffee, sweeps his hand across the view of one of the New Seven Wonders of the World and proclaims, “For decades, this all belonged to my family.” He ...

MEXICO CITY, April 11 (Reuters) - A stone scoreboard used in an ancient soccer-like ball game has been discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, ...

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 ...

People surround the El Castillo pyramid at the Mayan archaeological site of Chichen Itza in the Mexican state of Yucatan. Hugo Borges / Getty Images Looking for alternatives to overcrowded ...