A newly discovered altar buried near the center of the ancient Maya city of Tikal is providing fresh insight into the ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

On a wooden platform in the west tower of the Mexico City Cathedral ... where he can look through a skylight at the cathedral altar. As the archbishop starts the Mass, José points with a baton ...

While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — ...

Mexico's national cathedral – the vaulting, austere, ornate church on the Zócalo's north end – was once the site of an ancient Aztec precinct, so it has housed the city's spiritual core for ...

The altar reveals the presence of powerful rulers from Teotihuacan who were there at a time when a coup ousted Tikal’s Maya ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright ... powerful city close to modern-day Mexico City that exerted a strong ...