El Castillo (The Castle), a 98-foot-tall pyramid, dominates the city, while the Temple of the Warriors features murals of battle scenes and village ... abandoned to the jungle, the city remained ...

would have dwarfed the rest of the temple. Larger-than-life scenes carved on each of its exterior walls offered ancient worshippers a mere hint of the resplendent painted reliefs that still cover ...

The enormous city-state of Tikal, whose towering temples still stand in the jungle, battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for dominance of the Maya world. Far to the north in Mexico ...

Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist temple complex, burning down two buildings that had been designated ...

That there is a temple ... Here is an ancient ball court. The games that the Mayas played here would have settled arguments between different cities. The city is surrounded by jungle.

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,600-year-old pot containing gold jewellery and statuettes of a family of ancient gods. The treasure trove was discovered at the Karnak temple complex ...

Firefighters are racing to save people and ancient artefacts from the largest ... local officials say Eyewitnesses described apocalyptic scenes as fires engulfed their homes, with one man telling ...