Trekkers will find giant pyramids and other incredible finds scattered across the lost Mayan empire of El Mirador. So why is almost nobody going? The makeshift crosses left for victims of ...
El Mirador (“the look-out” in Spanish) was still largely unexplored. While some of the basin itself had been surveyed in 1885 by Claudio Urrutia, an engineer who noted the presence of ruinas grandes, ...
EL MIRADOR, Guatemala — The heat was unbearable and the trees seemed to reach endlessly skyward. Suddenly, from out of the vegetation, the Jaguar Paw pyramid appeared. Archaeologist Richard Hansen ...
Researchers discovered an ancient Mayan kingdom from 2,000 years ago in northern Guatemala, a new study shows. Cambridge University Press. An ancient Mayan kingdom from some 2,000 years ago was ...
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