Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Getty ImagesA view of the Pyramid of the Magician in Yucatan, Mexico. Hundreds of Mayan artifacts have been found underwater in a Guatemalan lake, according to the Daily Mail. Among the trove of ...

This flat stone monument, which stands on a pyramid at the Maya site of Piedras Negras in northwestern Guatemala, shows Lady K'atun-Ajaw, Namaan-Ajaw seated cross-legged on a throne. Her three ...

Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala ... but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization ...

At Muyil, you’ll see what is known as Peten architecture, with steep walled pyramids similar to those at the famous Tikal ...