Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...

The beautiful national park boasts monkeys, jaguars and dense rainforest - and it may look familiar to Star Wars fans as it ...

More than a dozen coatis in Tikal were suddenly sent scattering when a jaguar came out of nowhere to hunt one of the coati down, doing so at the feet of a woman recording the encounter on her phone.

Archaeologists working at Naachtun, a Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, have uncovered a unique fifth-century patolli ...

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A Maya ceremonial pyramid and courtyard complex at Tikal, in present-day Guatemala, was hidden by jungle until its recent discovery during a lidar survey. Researchers believe the complex may once have ...

Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh made a rare change to her hair when she visited Tikal National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its archaeological significance and rich biodiversity, in ...

The history of the ancient Maya board game patolli gained a new twist when archaeologists discovered a game board embedded in ...

Richard Bevan reveals the real stories behind the world’s lost cities - how they fell, how they were found, and why their ...

Taco Tikal scored only 51 points and a “U” for unsatisfactory. The report says chicken, beef and rice were at unsafe temperatures, raw chicken was stored on top of raw beef in the cooler and an ...