After scaling an ancient Mayan site, tourists were apprehended for disregarding rules and disrespecting a centuries-old ...

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a mysterious "anomaly" beneath the Western Cemetery near Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza. Using ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography, they ...

A 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture has been discovered in the erstwhile Mayan city of Tikal in ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala uncover a Teotihuacan altar in Tikal, revealing ancient cultural and spiritual ties with the Maya ...

The man was one of two separate visitors filmed climbing the pyramid on Thursday ... carried out at the top of the pyramid by the ancient Mayans, the local paper reported. The incident comes ...

F amous for its iconic pyramid and temples, the ancient Maya city of Tikal is no stranger to imperial conflict, having ...

We follow behind a tour group climbing a protective scaffold over its Temple IV, or Great Pyramid, one of the tallest of the Maya world at 230 feet. From the platform on top, sunbeams flare off the ...

Tikal, one of the most powerful Maya city-states, became a rival in this network. Previous discoveries — such as the famous ...

Climbing the Mayan civilisation’s ancient pyramids is banned, both to respect the structures and from fear of damaging them. But that didn’t stop two tourists from launching themselves to the ...

He acknowledged that while small structures such as shafts and chambers might exist beneath the pyramids, the idea of a vast underground city is questionable. "The Mayans and other people in ...

Ms Conyers emphasised the entrances of caves or caverns had "ceremonial meaning" to "Mayans and other people in ancient Mesoamerica" and often built pyramids on top of the entrances. The results ...