“Welcome to the city of Caracol,” Fernando says grandly, as we walk into a grassy plaza ... of Belize’s population of 405,000 consider themselves Latino or Creole, the Indigenous Maya ...

This is the airport of Punta Gorda, the southernmost town in Belize, population 5,000. It’s remote, but it’s a bustling metropolis compared with Santa Cruz, a Maya settlement that lies a 50 ...

Set apart from the other structures, the excavators also uncovered a platform mound topped with four structures situated around a plaza ... a Maya city that straddles modern-day Belize and ...

As the scorching May sun of Central Belize blazes ... demonstrating the Maya's sustainable interactions with animals throughout the millennia of their history. Inside the plaza floors of ...

In Belize's ATM Cave, details of ancient Maya religious sacrifices come into focus as new research creates a picture of how rituals were used to re-enact the Maya creation story. In the eerie red ...

More information: W.James Stemp et al, Two ancient Maya tattooing tools from Actun Uayazba Kab, Roaring Creek Valley, Belize, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.

After a trip to Belize, he got the itch to build something ... they’ll start welcoming guests to Prana Maya, a secluded, wellness-focused retreat that enjoys expansive views of the Caribbean ...

In central Belize, the Maya Forest Corridor, a narrow section of forested land, is key for wildlife movements across Belize, conservationists say. A land acquisition by the Maya Forest Corridor ...

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 ...