Tikal was the capital of a great Maya city-state, one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya. Today Tikal is a ...

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 ...

The Maya city of Tikal thrived for hundreds of years but was abandoned in the ninth century A.D. Jimmy Baum / Unsplash. In the ninth century A.D., the Maya ...

The Maya city of Tikal thrived for hundreds of years but was abandoned in the ninth century A.D. Jimmy Baum / Unsplash Jimmy Baum / Unsplash ...

Tikal: Located in the wilds of Tikal National Park about 200 miles north of Guatemala City, this metropolis was settled as early as 600 B.C. Click through the gallery to see more photos of this ...

Yet it sits in the heart of Tikal, a Maya city. A pre-Columbian coup d’etat. Tikal was one of the biggest and most important cities of the Maya civilization. Founded in 850 BCE, ...

The city of Tikal is shown at top right. Image: T. Garrison/PACUNAM/Antiquity For the first 500 years of the first millennium, Teotihuacán (pronounced tay-oh-tee wah-kan) was the largest and most ...

For centuries, Tikal was a bustling Maya city in what is now northern Guatemala. But by the late 800s CE, its plazas and temples stood silent, surrounded by mostly abandoned farms.

Tikal flourished between 600 B.C. and A.D. 900. The city began interacting with Teotihuacan around A.D. 300, but the relationship quickly turned contentious.