Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

The newly discovered altar was built during this time. Several years ago, lidar surveys revealed that a small replica of ...

Despite finding the altar in Tikal, a ruined Mayan city situated in modern Guatemala, archaeologists believe it wasn’t decorated by Mayas. Instead, they say it was the work of artists trained ...

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Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered an altar that holds the burial of a child and adult in the Maya city of Tikal, a ...

The altar reveals the presence of powerful rulers from Teotihuacan who were there at a time when a coup ousted Tikal’s Maya ...

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

This is the case at many of the late Puebloan sites in the Southwest, too. Their descendants are incredibly hard-bitten and generally don't tell white archaeologists shit, but I know a few ...

Experts are still trying to parse out the relationship between the ancient cities of Teotihuacan and Tikal. Archeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old altar that upends what we thought we knew ...

Here, in the heart of the ancient Maya site of Tikal, stood an altar built and painted in the style of Teotihuacan, the far-off metropolis in central Mexico. This altar may be the clearest ...

All right, big archaeological news dropped this week. An ancient altar was found in Tikal, Guatemala. But the real discovery is who built the altar and where. So get this - Tikal, Guatemala, is a ...