The Amazing Mayan Murals of Bonampak

The Amazing Mayan Murals of Bonampak

DOWN BY THE GUATEMALAN BORDER, …in a remote corner of the Mexican state of Chiapas, there’s a small Mayan ruin known as Bonampak. The ancient, long abandoned city, really more of a large town, boasts an acropolis, topped  by a couple of smallish third rate...
Coba and Muyil: Mayan Cities in Quintana Roo

Coba and Muyil: Mayan Cities in Quintana Roo

The historic range of the Maya was a vast expanse that encompassed fully a third of the land area of Mesoamerica:  the entire Yucatan peninsula, much of the Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco, all of modern day Guatemala and Belize, and the western sections of...