The great cities of the Maya lowlands dominated the Early Classical period, as we take a look at the latest instalment of our ...
A family altar in the Maya city of Tikal offers a glimpse into events in an enclave of the city’s foreign overlords in the wake of a local coup. Archaeologists recently unearthed the altar in a ...
The proto-Maya Olmec cities of San Lorenzo and La Venta, 1250-400 B.C.: if not the mother culture, an undisputed similar culture -- The Mirador Basin in times long gone, 1000 B.C.-A.D. 150 -- Tikal, ...