Among the plazas and terraces of a Maya city recently documented in the Campeche jungle, one slab of limestone stands out ...

Scientists drove ATVs for miles and then hiked miles more through dense forest to reach a site untouched by looting on Mexico ...

Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar logging tracks. There, they found unique carved stelae and altars ...

Deep in the forests of Campeche, Mexico, laser sensors have revealed the outlines of a sprawling ancient Maya settlement that no modern road has ever reached. The site, identified as Valeriana, ...

Minanbé (“there is no road” in Yucatec Maya) is the name of a newly discovered, intact ancient Maya city in the depths of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the Mexican state of Campeche. The ...

On June 22, 2026, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of Minanbé — an intact, ...

Discovered alongside unique formulas for the movements of the sun and planets, the attribution proves the importance of such ...

Examples of head-scratchingly impressive building material can be found throughout the ancient world, and Maya lime plaster ranks high among them. Scientists from the University of Granada in Spain ...