Tikal was home to at least 60,000 Maya and held sway over several other city-states scattered through the rain forest from the YucatánPeninsula to western Honduras. Though magnificent, the ruins ...

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

Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

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Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

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

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Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern ... evidence of the capital's heavy-handed presence: Inside the altar, the archaeologists found a child ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a Maya city more than 2,400 years old located in the heart of present-day Guatemala, an international team of researchers — including scholars from Brown ...

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.