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Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Šprajc and his team have discovered the remains of a Mayan city in the rainforest in the south of Mexico, which was an important regional hub of the indigenous society some 1,000 years ago.

Santos Tuz bids his followers farewell with a smile in Maya and Spanish on social media, where the young Mexican teacher shares his Indigenous language with thousands of people.

The 21-year-old, from the southeastern state of Yucatan, discovered his vocation to keep the words of his ancestors alive during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Mexico's ambitious Maya Train project is supposed to bring development to the Yucatan Peninsula, but along the country's Caribbean coast it is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help.

Dozens of black and red hand prints cover the walls of a cave in Mexico, believed to be associated with a coming-of-age ritual of the ancient Maya, according to an archeologist who has explored and studied the subterranean cavern.

Šprajc has been leading archaeological research in the Yucatan peninsula for more than 20 years. His latest expedition to the region bordering Guatemala, which is covered in a thick tropical rainforest, was between March and May, and he presented his findings to reporters in Ljubljana last week.

BELGRADE - A small pyramid structure was discovered inside the temple of Kukulkan in the legendary city of Chichen Itza.

The discovery was made by US and Mexican archaeologists working in the temple complex using the electrical resistivity tomography method.