Ancient Maya City of Tikal, Guatemala Posted: June 18, 2024 | Last updated: April 29, 2025 Tikal was the capital of a great Maya city-state, one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya.

The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

A family altar in the Maya city of Tikal offers ... ear jewelry (picture a fancy ancient version of modern earlobe plugs). Proyecto Arqueológico del Sur de Tikal archaeologist Edwin Ramirez ...

“What the altar confirms is that wealthy leaders from Teotihuacan came to Tikal and created replicas of ritual facilities that would have existed in their home city,” explained Scherer.

The discovery, announced by Guatemala’s Culture and Sports Ministry, was made within the ancient city of Tikal - an enormous city-state which battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for ...

Located about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of modern-day Mexico City ... altar found at Tikal wasn't made by the Maya — and it has at least 4 people buried inside it Ancient Maya quiz ...

An ancient altar has been unearthed that is believed to have been used to sacrifice children in an abandoned 'city of the gods'. The archaeologist who led the discovery, Lorena Paiz, said the ...

The Guatemalan government announced the discovery of an ancient Teotihuacan altar ... bordering Mexico. Tikal is an enormous city-state that battled for centuries with the Kaanul dynasty for ...

The ancient Maya city of Tikal, in modern-day Guatemala, flourished between roughly 600 B.C. and A.D. 900. Starting out as a modest series of hamlets, it became a great Maya city-state with more ...