Even now it remains more difficult to get to than most other Maya sites (save for Yaxchilán, which still requires a one-hour jungle boat ride to reach). Bonampak means "painted walls" in Maya ...

The wall is now only a few feet high, just boulders piled on top of one another. “It doesn’t look like much,” acknowledges Scherer. “The cows go right over it.” But when the Maya lived there, the wall ...

Video by Andy Bardon of Mayan Smith-Gobat climbing The Salathé Wall, El Capitan, Yosemite. Absolute void, small overlaps, ever steepening terrain and a beautiful crack which begins with poor jams and ...

Completed in 2023, the villa fuses Mediterranean architecture with Mayan materials, featuring a two-level exoskeleton of sandstone columned arches and an interior built with an exposed bone ...