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

Though magnificent, the ruins of Tikal visible today represent ... a site and not greatly change our understanding of Classic Maya civilization. What changes it is the fortuitous discovery of ...

At the height of the Mayan ... already in ruins. At this point, the city had been abandoned for several hundred years. But why did a sophisticated and seemingly prosperous civilization would ...

When most people think of ancient Maya civilization, they imagine godlike kings building ... Golden has excavated Maya ruins and artifacts from Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan, ancient kingdoms along the ...

filled with hidden ruins that Hansen and others refer to as “the cradle of Maya civilization.” We zipped away from the town of Flores at 140 knots. Off to the east were the spectacular Maya ...

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

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

But for many past visitors, the ruins themselves were not the primary attraction: people flock to El Rey to mingle with the hundreds of iguanas that have invaded the former Mayan town, saying the ...

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