A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

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 ...

New archaeological finds add to evidence that the Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala was once ruled by people from Teotihuacan in modern Mexico, over 600 miles away. Photograph by Martin Bache ...