Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

Yet ceramic designs found at Tikal and other Maya sites seem to mirror the iconography of the Teotihuacán culture—especially ... Scanning a map of the ruins laid out on his desk, Stuart points ...

Cities, statues, artefacts and cultural ornaments were uncovered, preserved and collected. The Maya civilisation began ... and even built their cities as a map of the sky! They were also inspired ...

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 ...