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(CNN) — 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 ...

Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The presence of this altar implies that the two shared a relationship that ...

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 ...

In Europe you visit sites and they know just about everything, there’s ancient texts and what not. You go to Central America and it’s like “well we think such and such”, or “we assume ...

Home away from home: "Foreigners" from Teotihuacán built their own altars after arriving in the Maya city ... at Tikal,” said Scherer, a professor of anthropology, archaeology and the ancient ...

SCHERER: It is the kind of altar that at Teotihuacan is found in residential complexes, and so probably the area that it was found is serving a similar sort of function. And it would've been used for ...