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 ...

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

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.

The remains of three children were found at the altar in Tikal National Park in Guatemala ...

(non-Flash version) View a clickable map of the ancient Maya empire, from Chichen Itza in the north to Copan in the south.

While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — archaeologists came across an elaborately painted altar dating back to ...

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: the city itself had to ...

Maya and Teotihuacan cultures mixed in the past. That's news from the findings of a specific altar. All right, big archaeological news dropped this week. An ancient altar was found in Tikal ...