The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador for thousands of years. Emerging around ...

Each sustained its own grand, hidden city — Oaxaca’s mountaintop Monte Albán flourished from 500 BCE to 850 CE, while Chiapas’s forest-shrouded Palenque was at its height in the sixth and ...