Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Video shows a tourist scaling the steps of Mexico's Temple of Kukulcan as thousands of visitors flocked to the site to ...

In 2023, a Polish man was whacked with a wooden pole after scaling the stairs of Chichén Itzá. After being brought down, he was quickly surrounded by a crowd at the bottom of the steps and abused, ...

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient ...

The incident was captured on video by a visitor who filmed the man as he raced up the steps of the Temple of Kukulcán at ...

A German tourist was escorted from an archaeological complex when he climbed and attempted to evade security at a Mayan ...

Climbing the Mayan civilisation’s ancient pyramids is banned, both to respect the structures and from fear of damaging them. But that didn’t stop two tourists from launching themselves to the ...

A combination of historical preservation and safety concerns mean big fines for visitors who climb the ancient structures ...

After being apprehended, the tourist was escorted down the eastern side of the pyramid to avoid confrontations with the crowd ...