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

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 ...

Learn how an altar has revealed the rivalry between the ancient cities of Tikal and Teotihuacan.

While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — ...

Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

A Teotihuacan altar, which archaeologists believe was used for sacrifices, has been unearthed in Tikal National Park in ...

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

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

An ancient altar has been ncovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala that is believed to shed light on how Mayan and ...

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...

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