New research suggests mercury and toxic algae poisoned the settlement’s reservoirs Alex Fox Correspondent The Maya city of Tikal thrived for hundreds of years but was abandoned in the ninth century ...

All right, big archaeological news dropped this week. An ancient altar was found in Tikal, Guatemala. But the real discovery is who built the altar and where. So get this - Tikal, Guatemala, is a ...

Read about Tikal National Park in Guatemala below, then click on the main image, or here, to begin a slideshow about the region. Origin: Archaeologists believe the Maya settled the area as early as ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers including scholars from Brown ...

Shrouded in thick rainforest and centuries of mystery, the ancient Mayan city of Tikal is one of the greatest overlooked sites of antiquity in the West. We've all heard of Machu Picchu, but the scale ...

In the Guatemalan lowlands, the ruins of Tikal emerged from the forest, then its inscriptions revealed a world of dynasties, invasions, and high-stakes “Star Wars” fought for conquest. This chapter ...

The Maya and their civilization -- Tikal discovered -- Villages around the ridge : the middle Preclassic -- The move into greatness : the late Preclassic -- The birth of dynasties : the early Classic ...

This is the case at many of the late Puebloan sites in the Southwest, too. Their descendants are incredibly hard-bitten and generally don't tell white archaeologists shit, but I know a few ...