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

In the jungles of northern Guatemala, archaeologists brushed away centuries of soil to uncover a small altar that shouldn’t ...

Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The ...

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

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

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, has been discovered in Tikal National ...

A new discovery tells of a turbulent episode in the Mayan city of Tikal according to the researchers who unearthed an ancient ...

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

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

An ancient altar found in Guatemala offers striking evidence of the relationship between the Maya and the ancient metropolis ...

It took archaeologists one and a half years to uncover the altar in a dwelling and analyse it before the announcement. “The remains of three children not older than four years were found on three ...

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