A US PhD student has accidentally uncovered a sprawling ancient Maya city hidden beneath dense jungle in Campeche ... he discovered a lost city with an estimated population of 30,000 to 50,000 ...

What seemed like natural hills have turned out to be long-lost pyramids. Ravines have been identified as remnants of ancient human-made structures. And what was considered simple trade has emerged ...

A Mayan city lost in the dense jungle of ... hidden for centuries beneath the thick Mexican jungle, unearthing pyramids, enclosed plazas, and an ancient reservoir. Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student ...

A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico ... thought to be the largest Maya site in ancient Latin America. The team discovered three ...

The site includes two plazas with temple pyramids where the Maya would have engaged in worship, hidden treasures like jade masks, and buried their dead. An ancient ball game was also likely played ...

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

There is also Temple IV, a 65m-tall (213ft) pyramid in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Tikal in modern Guatemala. In the past, uncovering a Maya city involved wading through thick jungle ...

Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins ... that these very ancient structures were so close to the modern surface,” Muro Ynoñán said. “We think that a large temple was built into ...