While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

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A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

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.

Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis, festooned ...

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

Temple of Ah Cacao and Temple of the Masks, Tikal, Guatemala Deep within the ... 30kms from the country’s capital Yerevan the temple complex commands attention with 24 mighty Ionic order columns ...

His tomb, found by Mexican archeologists in 1952, lies at the bottom of a set of steps leading 80 feet down from the top of the temple. Contemporary with Palenque and Tikal, Uxmal is an ...