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Guatemala's most popular Maya ruins lie at Tikal, but for real bragging rights you'll have to head deep into the Peten jungle, where you'll find the ancient city of El Mirador. Dating back to 300 B.C., it's about a century older and more than twice the size of Tikal. And while getting to Tikal is a simple matter of climbing into an air-conditioned vehicle, to get a glimpse of El Mirador's monumental temples you need to trek your way through the jungle - the nearest road is about 45 miles (75 km) away...
...which Saturno found by sheer accident in San Bartolo, Gautemala, dates back to 100 BC, tests revealed. Saturno first stumbled over the site while on a field expedition for the Peabody’s Corpus of Mayan Hieroglyphic Inscriptions in 2001. At the San Bartolo site in the northeastern Peten region of Guatemala, several tunnels and trenches, originally dug by looters, run under a larger pyramid. Saturno was seeking shade in one such tunnel when his flashlight revealed the corner of a wall painting. “In Western terms, it’s like knowing only modern...
...which was coordinated by Maya Scholar Charles Gallenkamp, features objects of ineffable fragility and beauty. These include six polychrome ceramic bowls excavated over the past five years at Tikal, the largest of all the known ancient Maya cities. Found in tombs at a site dubbed Mundo Perdido in the Peten jungle of Guatemala, these funerary vessels depict the underworld gods and beasts that haunted the Mayas. One bowl rests on a turtle swimming in a painted, stylized underground sea. Rising from the lid is the symbol of resurrection, a long-beaked water bird...
...Marxists going to march up through the Peten (the Guatemalan rain forest), through Mexico and up to Texas?" asks Professor Nathaniel-Davis, of California's Claremont College. The answer obviously is no. But one does not need to imagine dominoes falling to worry about Mexico's vulnerable southern regions' becoming infected with Nicaraguan-style revolution. If Mexico actually did lurch left, coming under a Communist regime or, more likely, splitting apart into warring fiefs, the U.S. would be confronted by a teeming enemy (pop. 75 million) along its 2,000-mile, currently undefended border. The U.S. would...
...site of the diggings, the Altar de Sacrificios, is near the meeting of the Rio Pasion and the Rio Choxy, in the Department of Peten. Although a Peabody Museum expedition discovered the center in 1895, Professor Willey made the preliminary explorations only last year...