Currently, use of the Maya language is concentrated mainly among adults aged 30 to 40 or older, while in many rural ...

A human skeleton roughly 8,000 years old has been recovered from deep inside a flooded cave on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, ...

There's nothing like this in nature, Jonathan Wendel said as he showed a visitor in his Bessey Hall office the long white ...

Beneath the lush rainforests of the Yucatan Peninsula lies a hidden, subterranean world: a vast network of flooded sinkholes and anchialine caves. These unique underwater systems, which mix fresh and ...

The jungles of the Yucatán peninsula look as wild as a forest can: dense, lush and filled with dozens of varieties of trees. It certainly doesn't look cultivated in the way that Iowa does. But ...

The state of Yucatan has long been a gem of Mexico, known for its ancient Mayan ruins, vibrant cultural scenes and the captivating White City of Merida. However, during the 2018-2024 period, the state ...

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This was not how I had imagined my trip to sunny Mexico—hurricane season was supposed to be over. It was night, and we were coming into Mérida, the capital city of Yucatán—La Ciudad Blanca, as it is ...

The tiny but mighty chile lends its unmistakable fruity heat to marinades, dressings and, of course, salsas. By Pati Jinich It doesn’t matter if you are at a hotel, restaurant, market, street-food ...

New research shows changes in tides and hurricane activity played a part in upending the Maya civilization centuries ago. Changes to the water table throughout the Yucatan Peninsula impacted the Maya ...