Mayas to Have a Palace in Southeast Mexico

YAXCABA, MEXICO.- The Maya culture, which reached its peak more than a thousand years ago, will soon have a new and enormous museum in the jungles of Mexico divulging its secrets, authorities of the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatan said. Construction of the Palace of the Maya Civilization began Monday, coinciding with the beginning of the winter solstice, on 400 hectares (988 acres) of land in the municipality of Yaxcaba. Yucatan Gov. Ivonne Ortega laid the cornerstone for the project, [...]