Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

About 30 Mayan languages are still spoken by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. Some are spoken by hundreds of thousands of people; some by fewer than 5,000. The highly ...

Journey back in time and uncover the mysteries of the Mayan civilization! 🏞️🌄 Discover the stunning architecture and ancient stories hidden in Tikal, Guatemala. Join me on this incredible ...

When most people think of ancient Maya civilization, they imagine godlike kings building towering pyramids and reveling in bloody human sacrifice. But commoners also played a significant role in the ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala.

In November 2002 the Guatemalan authorities sent an updated tentative list of 16 sites eligible for nomination process for UNESCO World Heritage status. The relevance of Mayan sites, the potential for ...

There is a tendency for Americans to feel drawn to Latin American countries for proximity and staying within the same time ...

Indigenous Mayans in Guatemala have called for a halt on multinational companies coming to their communities and extracting resources. As more of their people are being deported from the US under ...

At the height of the Mayan empire 1,400 years ago, the city of Tikal in modern-day Guatemala was a bustling metropolis the size of London during the Middle Ages. But when the Spanish conquistadors ...