Tikal National Park in northeast Guatemala is a phenomenal and almost otherworldly place to visit. With its massive pyra ...

Tikal was the capital of a great Maya city-state, one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya. Today Tikal is a ...

Guatemala: In “Ruins and Ruminations in Tikal (Aug. 19),” Teotihuacan was incorrectly identified as a Mayan city. It was built by Teotihuacanos, a pre-Aztec civilization. Subscribers are Reading ...

Guatemala's amazing Tikal ruins. ... If you want to feel what it was like wandering the central plaza of a bustling Mayan city in A.D. 800, Tikal is an outsized time capsule, ...

As rain buffeted the plane, I flicked through William Coe’s classic “Tikal: A Handbook of the Ancient Mayan Ruins,” savoring the royal cast of characters: Stormy Sky, Jaguar Paw and Ah Cacao ...

I went because: I wanted to experience the magic of Central America's best Mayan ruins. Don't miss: A guided tour of Tikal, hiking an active volcano in Antigua and the beauty of Lago Atitlan, a ...

As our bus slowed at the entrance to a huge jungle park containing the Maya ruins of Tikal, one of Guatemala`s most spectacular attractions for tourists and archeologists, a small group of ...

Nowadays, the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala, have been largely reclaimed by the jungle. Howler monkeys jump from pyramid to pyramid. Bats hide in the crevices of ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the ruins of a 3,000-year-old Maya city featuring “remarkable” architecture, including pyramids and monuments, that shed more light on the ancient ...

Scientists use laser technology to uncover more Mayan ruins 03:10. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, ... Tikal, about 15 miles ...

Guatemala's amazing Tikal ruins. ... If you want to feel what it was like wandering the central plaza of a bustling Mayan city in A.D. 800, Tikal is an outsized time capsule, ...

Shrouded in thick rainforest and centuries of mystery, the ancient Mayan city of Tikal is one of the greatest overlooked sites of antiquity in the West. We’ve all heard of Machu Picchu, but the ...