The ancient Maya city of Tikal, in modern-day Guatemala, flourished between roughly 600 B.C. and A.D. 900. Starting out as a modest series of hamlets, it became a great Maya city-state with more ...

View of the "Gran Jaguar" (Big Jaguar) Mayan temple, located in the Great Plaza of the Tikal archaeological site at the Maya Biosphere in Peten, Guatemala on July 24, 2024.

Tikal Temple I, the grandest of them all, is an exemplary piece of Mayan architecture. But, with a city so big more than just one temple was needed to connect with the gods: the city itself had to ...

In Guatemala’s Tikal National Park, which was once the center of the Maya civilization, archaeologists discovered a fifth-century C.E. altar from the Teotihuacan culture. The Teotihuacan people ...

A Teotihuacan altar, which archaeologists believe was used for sacrifices, has been unearthed in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the centre of Mayan civilisation, shedding new light on the ...

All right, big archaeological news dropped this week. An ancient altar was found in Tikal, Guatemala. But the real discovery is who built the altar and where. So get this - Tikal, Guatemala, is a ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers has unearthed a buried altar that could unlock the secrets of a ...