Contemporary with Palenque and Tikal, Uxmal is an architectural gem whose buildings reflect a renaissance of Maya building that took place in the seventh to nine centuries A.D. The architectural ...

The Mayan town of Uxmal, in Yucatán, was founded c. A.D. 700 and had some 25,000 inhabitants. The layout of the buildings, which date from between 700 and 1000, reveals a knowledge of astronomy. The ...

Uxmal Ruins are the second-most visited archeological ... excellent hub for your cultural explorations. Here’s a map of the ...

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Laser imaging of the rainforests of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula have turned up thousands of ancient Maya structures — and an ...

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

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If you have more time and a rental car, visit the Mayan ruins on a day trip from Merida to Mayapan, Dzibilchaltun and Uxmal.

The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and paper. Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of ...