Climbing the Mayan civilisation’s ancient pyramids is banned, both to respect the structures and from fear of damaging them.

A tourist in Mexico is facing charges after he climbed the stairs of one of the New Seven Wonders of the World as onlookers ...

Climbing the pyramid has been banned to protect the nearly 1,000-year-old structure. Read more at straitstimes.com.

DNA yields new clues. How did the Maya choose sacrifice victims? DNA yields new clues. This ancient society tried to stop El Niño—with child sacrifice This ancient society tried to stop El ...

stands at the sacrifice site of Pampa la Cruz, a hilltop overlooking his hometown of Huanchaco. As a child, Prieto would explore the ruins of nearby Chan Chan, the ancient Chimú capital.

Which reminds me… Kukulkan demands human sacrifices ... Shang dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households buried their dead underneath ...

and ceremonies that featured a ball game and human sacrifice. The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics ...