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

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

Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The ...

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

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

In Guatemala’s Tikal National Park, which was once the center of the Maya civilization, archaeologists discovered a ...

A new discovery tells of a turbulent episode in the Mayan city of Tikal according to the researchers who unearthed an ancient ...

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

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...

A newly discovered altar, buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal, is shedding new light on the ...

“The Maya regularly buried buildings and rebuilt on top of them,” he said in a statement. “But here, they buried the altar and surrounding buildings and just left them, even though this ...

It shows Teotihuacan left a heavy imprint there." Even before discovering the altar, Houston and colleagues knew the Maya interacted with Teotihuacan for centuries before their relationship became ...