This flat stone monument, which stands on a pyramid at the Maya site of Piedras Negras in northwestern Guatemala, shows Lady K'atun-Ajaw, Namaan-Ajaw seated cross-legged on a throne. Her three ...

Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala ... but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization ...

The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, ...

At Muyil, you’ll see what is known as Peten architecture, with steep walled pyramids similar to those at the famous Tikal ...

Hundreds of Indigenous Mayan people in Guatemala ushered in the new year according to their calendar with a spiritual ceremony at the sacred Mayan site of Kaminaljuyu, in Guatemala City, on Tuesday.

Tikal’s prime however came in the Late Classic Period (600-900 AD), with the planning and construction of of their great plazas , pyramids ... Guatemala. Nestled within the vast Maya Biosphere ...