Temple I, or Temple of the Great Jaguar, in northern Tikal National Park, in Peten, Guatemala (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) From ...

The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah. But, given our discussion of last week and the week before ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...

Archaeologists found the remains of three children under the age of four alongside the artifact — suggesting that it was once used for child sacrifice. Tikal, an ancient city-state deep in the jungle ...

An ancient altar has been unearthed that is believed to have been used to sacrifice children in an ... and cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and the elite of Teotihuacan between ...

Related: Ancient Mayan human sacrifices involved twins. ] Archeologists believe that Tikal’s collective memory of this Teotihuacan coup was likely pretty complicated. While it may have rocked ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An illustration of a Teotihuacan-style altar that ...

In love, one loses and gains, at the very least, a different version of oneself. How does one navigate the regret that is inevitable. Accept life, and one must accept regret, a wise person once ...

All the while, get up the courage to try the zipline or to take the Mayan Sacrifice Jump! Do you dare? There’s restrooms and showers, grills to cook on, and lifejackets provided. All you need is ...

Mayan descendants live throughout southern Mexico and northern Central America, divided into tribes such as the Yucatecs, Tzeltal, and Tzotzil. They still engage in a version of Pok-a-Tok which they ...

The chaos and cruelty of the Trump administration reaches new lows each week. Trump’s catastrophic “Liberation Day” has wreaked havoc on the world economy and set up yet another ...

Maya Lin was born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, and currently lives and works in New York City. She attended Yale University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in 1981 in art and architecture and ...