Editor’s Note: Nearly 200 miles north of Guatemala City, in the rainforest, lie the remains of the ancient city Tikal, the capital of one of the most powerful kingdoms of the Maya civilization. GP ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Manuel Valdes, The Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY — My childhood home is gone and so is the Chinese restaurant next to it. But my street in the urban ...
A new centre dedicated to research and the preservation of the Mayan cultural heritage has been officially inaugurated at Tikal National Park in the Peten district of Northern Guatemala. This new ...
TIKAL NATIONAL PARK, Guatemala — This spectacular Mayan ruin nestled in northern Guatemala’s dense tropical jungle is about as far from civilization as you can get, but the wake-up calls are every bit ...
The Bureau noted with satisfaction that the size of this mixed World Heritage property might be enlarged by about 50% and that the new areas earmarked for inclusion in the Park may contain natural and ...
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 ...
TIKAL NATIONAL PARK, Guatemala — The woman in the shorts shrieked, grabbed her ankle and crumpled to the ground as though she’d been shot. And in a sense she had. “A bullet ant,” surmised José Elias, ...
Altar found in Guatemalan jungle evidence of mingling of Mayan and Teotihuacan cultures, experts say
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, ...
The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 110, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 505-510 (6 pages) Despite its size, color, importance as a game species, and restricted geographic range (Yucatán Peninsula, northern Belize, and ...
Nicaragua: The site of Leon Viejo, recognized by the Bureau as having World Heritage values, but not inscribed as yet. The Secretariat informed that heavy rains and storms have caused serious flooding ...
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 ...
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