Mendez Díaz is a village elder and farmer from Yaxcabá, a village of 3,000 people some 29 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of the ancient Maya city ... spirits to supply water for their harvests.
Oxwatz Nature Park, an ecotourism site in the Yucatán peninsula, brought in a joint team of Mexican and Spanish ...
On the edge of a small cornfield near the ruined Maya ... the water at the bottom of this nondescript natural well, or cenote, had acted as a sacred sundial and timekeeper for the ancient Maya ...
There are over 4400 ancient Mayan ruins in Central America, with plenty of them located in Mexico and mostly being ...
Photo from Xavier Sicart Chavarría via INAH Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement ... means “place where water is collected ...