Owners Daphnee and Juan Munar explained that Ixchel (“EE-shell”) is the Mayan goddess linked to the moon, rainfall, harvest times, fertility and medicine. Is this food medicinal? Yes.

Ixchel is a Mayan moon goddess (there are several). She carries a jug of water, occasionally dumping it on Earth, creating ...

Scientists called Campeche an archaeological “blank spot” in the Maya Lowlands, an area spanning what is now Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and southeastern Mexico, and which the Maya ...

A sprawling Maya city with palaces and pyramids was discovered in a dense Mexican jungle by a doctoral student who unknowingly drove past the site years ago on a visit to Mexico. Tulane University ...

A graduate student analyzing publicly available drone data in Mexico unexpectedly stumbled across a huge ancient Mayan city buried beneath dense jungle. For centuries, the city lay hidden amid ...

An accidental discovery recently unveiled a lost ancient Maya city near Campeche, Mexico. Deep within the tropical forest, researchers believe it has all the hallmarks of a capital — a ...

Your support makes all the difference. An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a ...

Last year, Luke Auld-Thomas, a researcher specializing in Mayan settlements at Tulane University in New Orleans, was poring over a Mexican environmental monitoring survey, when he spotted ...