Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics of ...

Lidar technology is revealing that the Mayan civilization was more complex and interconnected than previously thought.

The discovery shows the cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and Teotihuacan's elite between 300 and 500 A.D., ...

Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The ...

A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

Tikal National Park in northeast Guatemala is a phenomenal and almost otherworldly place to visit. With its massive pyra ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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, ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Despite finding the altar in Tikal, a ruined Mayan city situated in modern Guatemala, archaeologists believe it wasn’t decorated by Mayas. Instead, they say it was the work of artists trained ...

A group of scientists have discovered a buried altar in Guatemala which had remains of people left in mysterious positions so ...

A 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture has been discovered in the erstwhile Mayan city of Tikal in ...

The traditional Chinese version of the sacred Mayan text “Popol Vuh,” an endeavor undertaken as a partnership between Taiwan ...