Though Costa Rica is a small country, it boasts coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Traveling between ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Godwin Heights eighth-graders’ first appearance at a National History Day competition led to some stellar results. And ...

The discovery at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala “marked a public dismantling of an old regime”—a rather pivotal moment ...

The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the ...

In an urban housing complex dating back to the 4th century AD in the middle of the jungle of Guatemalaarchaeologists ...

One of the indigenous groups who led the protests against the “pact of the corrupt” in 2023 is called the 48 Cantons of ...

A group of scientists have discovered a buried altar in Guatemala which had remains of people left in mysterious positions so ...

An archeologist quoted in a CBS News report about human sacrifice altars in Guatemala seemingly claimed the sacrificing ...

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...

Near the 2,400-year-old Maya city of Tikal in modern-day Guatemala, a team of researchers unearthed an altar that reveals more […] ...