Guatemala’s Attorney General’s Office has detained two Indigenous leaders on spurious terrorism charges tied to their ...

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

New archaeological finds add to evidence that the Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala was once ruled by people from Teotihuacan in modern Mexico, over 600 miles away. Photograph by Martin Bache ...

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

April 23, 2025. More for You ...

The discovery, announced by Guatemala’s Culture and Sports Ministry, was made within the ancient city of Tikal - an enormous city-state which battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for ...

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 ...

Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The presence of this altar implies that the two shared a relationship that spanned ...

Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The presence of this altar implies that the two shared a relationship that ...

Lidar surveys of Guatemala have revealed Tikal’s links with other Maya cities, like Homul. And Tikal also traded with the city of Teotihuacan, more than 1,000 kilometers to the west, in what’s ...