Deep in Guatemala’s Peten jungle, El Mirador hides under 2,000 years’ worth of jungle overgrowth. El Mirador is actually over twice the size of Tikal, with a population of over 80,000 people between ...
Writing up his own research in 1967, Graham, who went on to found the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard, speculated that the poor ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Heard about the end of the world in December 2012 as predicted by the Mayans? The members and editors of online travel consultants VirtualTourist (www.virtualtourist.com) have ...
EL MIRADOR, Guatemala — The heat was unbearable and the trees seemed to reach endlessly skyward. Suddenly, from out of the vegetation, the Jaguar Paw pyramid appeared. Archaeologist Richard Hansen ...
Archaeologist Richard Hansen has devoted his life to preserving Maya sites and artifacts. But some question whether his efforts will do more harm than good. EL MIRADOR, GuatemalaEL MIRADOR, Guatemala ...