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 ...

Little by little researchers are unraveling the mysteries of the Maya culture of Central ... a turbulent period of time of the ancient Maya city of Tikal. An altar was found buried under what ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed ... Despite finding the altar in Tikal, a ruined Mayan city situated in modern Guatemala, archaeologists believe it wasn’t ...

Maya and Teotihuacan cultures mixed in the past. That's news from the findings of a specific altar. All right, big archaeological news dropped this week. An ancient altar was found in Tikal ...

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 ...