This film is unavailable in Switzerland, San Marino, Italy, and Holy See (Vatican City State) because of territorial licensing. A trip to the Yucatan Peninsula, amid Caribbean colors and history—that part of Mexico is dedicated to tourism, inhabited by the Maya, and with amazing seabeds where turtles and whale sharks come to breed. …

This film is only available in the US. The Maya were an imposing civilization that originated in Yucatan around 2600 B.C. and reached its full splendor around 250 A.D. Among the pre-Columbian civilizations, the Maya are among the most intricate enigmas of history: a flourishing civilization that disappeared in a very short time and in…

WASHINGTON—A glyph representing a day called “7 Deer” on mural fragments dating from the third century BC found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala marks the earliest-known use of the Maya calendar, one of this ancient culture’s renowned achievements. The fragments were found at the San Bartolo archeological site in the jungles of…