A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

Near the 2,400-year-old Maya city of Tikal in modern-day Guatemala, a team of researchers unearthed an altar that reveals more […] ...

Little by little researchers are unraveling the mysteries of the Maya culture of Central America. A new discovery unearthed by an international team of archeologists in the heart of modern-day ...

This altar was probably built at a similar time to the coup, Scherer said, which eventually propelled the Mayan kingdom to its most powerful point, before it declined around 900 AD.

An enigmatic altar found in an ancient Mayan city contains bodies — and wasn’t made by the Maya. The ornately decorated structure may hold the key to unraveling the geopolitics of the time. — ...

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Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics of ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex ...