While place names often change in history — closely following power dynamics — there is very little geographical or ...

Tulum was a sleepy town on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula with deep connections to its Mayan roots. Even when American beach bums ...

Mexico is developing a huge megaproject in the south of the country, which promises to forever change the economy as well as ...

So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

The women of Chelem, a fishing community on the northern coast of the Mexican state of Yucatán, hadn’t planned to work in ...

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Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

The ancient pot was discovered by members of the Urban Cenotes organization, which preserves caves around the Yucatán Peninsula. Photo by the National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

One of the Yucatán Peninsula's natural underground pools, or cenotes, will soon offer visitors a museum experience in addition to its breathtaking beauty. (Muúk Karant/Instagram) Mexican real ...

The Gulf mainland shore runs more than 4,000 miles from the Florida Keys to Cabo Catoche on the Yucatán Peninsula. Florida ... was considered part of the "North Sea" (Atlantic Ocean). One map dated ...