TIKAL NATIONAL PARK, Guatemala — The woman in the shorts shrieked, grabbed her ankle and crumpled to the ground as though she’d been shot. And in a sense she had. “A bullet ant,” surmised José Elias, ...

Maya and Teotihuacan cultures mixed in the past. That's news from the findings of a specific altar. All right, big archaeological news dropped this week. An ancient altar was found in Tikal, Guatemala ...

Editor’s Note: Nearly 200 miles north of Guatemala City, in the rainforest, lie the remains of the ancient city Tikal, the capital of one of the most powerful kingdoms of the Maya civilization. GP ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the interaction ...

This paper presents an analysis of stature of the prehistoric population from the Maya site of Tikal, Guatemala. From this analysis, based on 55 skeletons from the Tikal burial series, three important ...

Tikal is perhaps one the best representations of Mayan culture and architecture: a labyrinthine metropolis where buildings still stand today as they do hundreds of years ago. The Maya still exist ...