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The artistic style used for the altar captures the figure and face of a man clad in a feathered headdress, surrounded by rich symbolic ornaments.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture ...

An illustration of a Teotihuacan-style altar that was recently discovered in the Mayan site of Tikal is displayed on a screen as Guatemalan archaeologist Lorena Paiz, right, speaks during a press ...

“Everyone knows what happened to the Aztec civilization after the Spanish arrived,” Houston said. “Our findings show evidence that that’s a tale as old as time. These powers of central Mexico reached ...

Altar Found in Guatemalan Jungle Evidence of Mingling of Mayan and Teotihuacan Cultures ... But it was abandoned before the rise of the Aztecs in the 14th century. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist ...