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.

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it appears foreigners from Teotihuacan built it.

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 ...

A Maya masterwork, Temple I overlooks Tikal's Grand Plaza. Tikal With its plethora of palaces, altars, shrines, and soaring temples, Tikal may be the premier Maya site.

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 ...

Scientists have found the historic Mayan city hiding underneath a rainforest in Guatemala - the sacred site was once home to the Tikal which was a bustling area with a huge trade industry ...

AILSA CHANG, HOST: 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.