Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

CBS News has sparked outrage by attempting to frame the gruesome practice of child sacrifice in ancient Mesoamerica as a benign cultural ritual. This came after the network reported on the discovery ...

In an urban housing complex dating back to the 4th century AD in the middle of the jungle of Guatemalaarchaeologists ...

A group of scientists have discovered a buried altar in Guatemala which had remains of people left in mysterious positions so ...

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...

CBS News ran a story on a recently uncovered altar from the Teotihuacan culture in present day Mexico. It’s located in Tikal National Park, Guatemala, which was the heart of Mayan culture, showing ...

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

Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel literature laureate who challenged Peru's powerful military in the early 1960s, has died at 89 ...

Archaeologists have been left stunned after they discovered compelling evidence confirming the interaction between the Mayan ...

The discovery of an ancient Mayan altar with bodies inside including that of a child in a seated position has sparked a ...

A new discovery tells of a turbulent episode in the Mayan city of Tikal according to the researchers who unearthed an ancient ...

A Teotihuacan altar, which archaeologists believe was used for sacrifices, has been unearthed in Tikal National Park in ...