University of Houston experts conducting excavations at Caracol in Belize found the tomb, which revealed burial artifacts and ...

A 1,700-year-old Teotihuacan-style altar has been found by archaeologists within the Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala - but it should never have been there. In a translated announcement from ...

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.

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

The traces of ancient corn farms could reveal how many people lived in a legendary Maya city, a new study suggests. The pyramid-filled Maya site of Tikal in Guatemala is one of the largest ...

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, demonstrating the ...

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 ...

An ancient altar has been ncovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala that is believed to shed light on how Mayan and Teotihuacan cultures interacted thousands of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site ...

Raymond Vincent Ashcroft, 66, and his wife were visiting the renowned Mayan city of Tikal with a bird-watching group on Feb. 3 when he mysteriously vanished, authorities said.