An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, has been discovered in Tikal National ...

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

Getty A tourist visiting Mexico was arrested and later attacked after he climbed up the side of a historic Mayan temple. In video footage obtained by Sky News and the Daily Mail, a man from ...

A tourist in Mexico is facing charges after he climbed stairs of one of the New Seven Wonders of the World before furious locals took justice into their own hands by beating the man. Bystander ...

The centre of town is at the top of a hill, around a plaza presided over by a white cathedral built on the site of a Maya temple, and ringed with ancient stelae (stone tablets) inscribed with Maya ...

This is the shocking moment a German tourist was beaten up by irate locals after he climbed a sacred Mayan temple in Mexico. Teresa Arroyo was visiting the Temple of Kukulcan in Chichén Itzá ...

Temple VI lays claim to the most extensive hieroglyphics in the Mayan world, narrating the city's dynastic history. When asked to choose one word to describe Tikal, David Stuart, a professor in ...

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

The view from the top of Tikal’s Pyramid of the Lost World over the dense forest of the Maya Biosphere Reserve and Temple IV. The fall of the ancient Maya civilisation came gradually — as did ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...