The Maya city of Tikal was found to be just a fraction of an immense hidden metropolis Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala ... the way the world will see the ...

The heart of the site is the Grand Plaza ... the first found in the Maya world. From an observation point on a nearby pyramid, the early Maya could watch the sun rise behind these buildings ...

The stelae at Quiriguá were taller than those at Copán. The tallest stela in the Maya world is actually Stela E from Quiriguá, stretching 35 feet or 10.7 metres high. Unfortunately, the explorers were ...

Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala ... world. Royal visages made of green jade, more valuable than gold to the ancient ...

The intertwined anniversaries this year of Guatemala’s 1944 Revolution and the 1954 coup that ended it provide an essential ...

She had been stopped just days earlier at Guatemala City airport. Customs officials found two Maya stone carvings in her bags. The woman said she had bought them at a market in the city of Antigua.

Ah, Guatemala! A place where time seems to have stood still, amidst the remnants of the Mayan civilization and the bustling streets ... Dive into the history at Tikal National Park, a UNESCO World ...

Encircled by thick jungle, Palenque is one of the most impressive and mysterious of all Mexico’s ancient Maya sites. Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World ...

Yet four years later, Landa wrote a manuscript about the Maya world called "Relation of the ... a Classic Maya site on the border between Mexico and Guatemala (left). Later, while examining ...

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala ... Tragically, the double-digit rate of child homicide is also among the world’s highest. The indigenous Maya make up about half of the population and ...