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

While most of the country’s top spots for tourism are located in the western portion of the country, eastern Guatemala is becoming more popular among visitors thanks in part to significant ...

The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador for thousands of years. Emerging around ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of years ago, in the middle of Lake Atitlán, a complex Mayan city settled that built temples ... in previous years by archaeologists from Guatemala, as well as to create models in ...

This Vibrant Colonial City Is in a Volcanic Hot Spot This Vibrant Colonial City Is in a Volcanic Hot Spot Explore the Maya ruins of Guatemala's Petén department Explore the Maya ruins of ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

rainforests and ancient Mayan sites. The capital, Guatemala City, features the stately National Palace of Culture and the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Antigua, west of the capital ...