Those that were found in Tikal were majorly bearing carved features of a priest or other important people, inscribed with hieroglyphs and dates. In the Early Classic Period (100-600 BCE), Tikal ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

like Chichen Itza and Tulum in Mexico or Tikal in Guatemala. But so much more than being the architects of these ancient ...

The Snakes and their allies quickly crushed Tikal, sacked it, and likely sacrificed its king with a stone blade on his own altar. It’s probably at this time that the people of Holmul nearly ...

This is the ancient city of Tikal. 1300 years ago it would have been called 'Yax Mutal' and was home to thousands of Maya people. Image caption, This is the Temple of the Great Jaguar. It's called ...