Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala&#82… ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of three Maya cities in the Petén jungle of Guatemala.. The cities are about 3 miles (5 kilometers) apart and are arranged like a triangle, Guatemala's ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Lawyers for an Indigenous community in eastern Guatemala made arguments before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Wednesday in a case that could have far-reaching ...

The Maya civilization reached its height between 250 and 900 AD in what is present-day southern Mexico and Guatemala, as well as parts of Belize, El Salvador and Honduras.

A 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture has been discovered in the erstwhile Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala, providing further proof of ties between the two pre-Hispanic ...

In 2013, Carlos Mera, Guatemala’s then-director of cultural patrimony, said that nearly all of the country’s 4,000 archaeological sites have had items looted. InSight Crime Analysis. Raids on local ...

The recent arrests of two Maya leaders is emblematic of increasing criminalization of Indigenous peoples by the Guatemalan state.