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 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.

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 ...

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: ...

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 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.

TOURISTS flocking to Guatemala for "end of the world" parties have damaged an ancient stone temple at Tikal, the largest archaeological site and urban centre of the Mayan civilisation.