The town of Palenque is a bit scruffy, offering little for tourists other than a place to stay and eat while visiting the nearby Palenque Mayan ruins . I stayed two nights at Ciudad Real Palenque , ...

Amidst jungle-shrouded hills overlooking the Usumacinta River basin in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, the Mayan site of Palenque is a jewel for anyone interested in ancient Mayan civilization.

2002-05-05 04:00:00 PDT Palenque, Mexico-- We were going to make a run for it. From the mosquito-ridden swamps of Xcalak, at the Caribbean tip of Quintana Roo near the Belize border, to mountainous ...

At the height of their empire, from the third to the 10th century, the Maya ruled in an unbroken chain of cities and villages from southern Mexico through Guatemala and Belize and down to western ...

Came across a note to myself the other day. It read: "See Palenque (Pa-len-kay), lights out, etc." Unfortunately, another undated reminder. Peggy gets on me for not dating such things, causing me to ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Embassy will donate $500,000 to help conserve the tomb of king Pakal and other structures at the Mayan ruin site of Palenque, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology ...

South of the border, in southern Mexico, you will find the Palenque ruins: classical Mayan architecture replete with light, elegant galleries that depart from the heavy architecture found in previous ...

FILE - In this March 10, 2008 file photo, people meet for the Indigenous People to Heal Our Mother Earth pre-dawn ceremony to ask forgiveness from "our Mother Earth" and explore traditional solutions ...