Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of ...

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This altar was probably built at a similar time to the coup, Scherer said, which eventually propelled the Mayan kingdom to its most ... knows what happened to the Aztec civilization after the ...

The event may have shaken Tikal to its core, but it ultimately made the kingdom more powerful ... “Everyone knows what happened to the Aztec civilization after the Spanish arrived,” Houston ...