Archaeologists in Guatemala have uncovered a previously unknown structural complex next to the ancient Maya city of Tikal. But this district didn’t belong to the Maya, as it seems a foreign power was ...

New research suggests mercury and toxic algae poisoned the settlement’s reservoirs Alex Fox Correspondent The Maya city of Tikal thrived for hundreds of years but was abandoned in the ninth century ...

The ruins of Tikal are surrounded by a national park — 57,600 hectares of rainforest and wetlands. In comparison, the center of the city is small, about 400 hectares of temples, terraces, roads and ...

Archaeologists discovered a 5th-century painted altar at Tikal with undeniable Teotihuacan artistic style, proving people from central Mexico established a physical presence in the Maya city The altar ...

A new study of the landscape around the city of Tikal in the Peten rainforest of Guatemala shows that Maya of the Classic period -- from about AD 250 to 800 -- used Stone Age technology to build ...

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 scale ...

For centuries, Tikal was a bustling Maya city in what is now northern Guatemala. But by the late 800s CE, its plazas and temples stood silent, surrounded by mostly abandoned farms. A recent study ...