Return to Mexico with Steve Backshall as he discovers Mayan secrets in subterranean caves. Return to Mexico, where Steve Backshall explores a honeycomb of subterranean Mexican caves that the ancient ...

The ancient Maya once believed that Mexico’s jungle sinkholes, containing crystalline waters, were the gateway to the underworld and the lair of a surly rain god who had to be appeased with human ...

So I saw this crazy headline on CNN’s website — “Hidden tunnel could lead to Mayan ‘entrance to the underworld.’ ” Having watched a number of movies in which opening an entrance to the underworld ...

Unlike other great civilizations such as the Romans and the Ancient Egyptians the Mayan empire did not arise from the banks of a mighty river Much of the Mayan world is in fact devoid of even the ...