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.

Tikal was one of the biggest and most important cities of the Maya civilization. Founded in 850 BCE, it chugged along for centuries as a small backwater until its sudden rise to wealth and ...

The film follows 14-year-old Hilberto Lealo from Guatemala, who dreams of visiting the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal. He learns the traditional art of weaving from his father, Don Jose, in their ...

Archaeologists discovered a 5th-century painted altar at Tikal with undeniable Teotihuacan artistic style, proving people from central Mexico established a physical presence in the Maya city The ...

Despite finding the altar in Tikal, a ruined Mayan city situated ... Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art.

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.

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, ... and history of art and architecture at Brown, who co-authored the paper.

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 ...

Despite finding the altar in Tikal, a ruined Mayan city situated ... Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art.