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

The altar stands in the courtyard of what was once a wealthy, influential person’s home in Tikal. At just over 1 meter tall, ...

T he Guatemalan government announced the discovery of an ancient Teotihuacan altar in Tikal National Park, shedding new light ...

A newly discovered altar, buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal, is shedding new light on the ...

Tikal, Temple I Courtesy of Flickr user mtsrs. Tikal Courtesy of Flickr user Hector Garcia. Tikal Courtesy of Flickr user 4Neus. "Tikal Clouds" Courtesy of Flickr user 4Neus. I was only 7 years ...

Tikal’s great plaza ... a steep pyramid called Temple I, whose roof comb towers 145 feet above the ground, and its mate across the plaza, TempleII, soaring 125 feet above the grass; and a ...

SCHERER: It is the kind of altar that at Teotihuacan is found in residential complexes, and so probably the area that it was found is serving a similar sort of function. And it would've been used for ...