Explore the Mayan ruins of Tikal in Guatemala, where we arrived at 4 AM to experience the site without crowds. Tikal boasts a remarkable collection of both fully and partially excavated pyramids and ...

I had thought it might be interesting to spend a day in this town built on a little island in Lake Peten Itza after a visit to the famed Mayan ruins at Tikal. I must have missed the memo for tourists ...

A family altar in the Maya city of Tikal offers a glimpse into events in an enclave of the city’s foreign overlords in the wake of a local coup. Archaeologists recently unearthed the altar in a ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have uncovered a previously unknown structural complex next to the ancient Maya city of Tikal. But this district didn’t belong to the Maya, as it seems a foreign power was ...

Eco-Esquela is less than two hours of one of Guatemala's most impressive -- and popular -- tourist destinations, the great Mayan ruins at Tikal. The region's one good road leads straight from the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — 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 researchers including scholars from Brown ...

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 researchers has unearthed a buried altar that could unlock the secrets of a ...