Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old traditions, and an opportunity to learn about the country’s history from ...

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

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

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

The altar reveals the presence of powerful rulers from Teotihuacan who were there at a time when a coup ousted Tikal’s Maya ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered an altar that holds the burial of a child and adult in the Maya city of Tikal ...

Belize may not be the first country to come to mind when you think of famous Mayan archaeological wonders. Sites like Ch ...

Visiting ancient Maya settlements is a highlight of any trip to Guatemala ... Dated to the mid-eighth century, the Temple of the Great Jaguar still stands in the so-called Great Plaza as the ...

A Teotihuacan altar, which archaeologists believe was used for sacrifices, has been unearthed in Tikal National Park in ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered ...