Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

In an ancient Maya temple-pyramid in Guatemala, archaeologists recently discovered the scorched bones of at least four adults who were likely members of a royal lineage. The burning signaled a ...

the oldest known intact Maya mural to date, was discovered in an 80-foot-high pyramid at the ruins of San Bartolo, a ceremonial site in Guatemala. Still,Tikal stands out. “The buildings at Tikal ...

It was a Sunday morning in northern Guatemala, late October ... Off to the east were the spectacular Maya pyramids and ruins of Tikal National Park, which is now linked to Flores by road and ...

Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala ... but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization ...

This flat stone monument, which stands on a pyramid at the Maya site of Piedras Negras in northwestern Guatemala, shows Lady K'atun-Ajaw, Namaan-Ajaw seated cross-legged on a throne. Her three ...

315-318 (4 pages) "I am more and more convinced that we shouldn't follow the examples of development of Europe and the United States," says Monseñor Alvaro Ramazzini, Bishop of San Marcos and ...