Ancient cities and enduring Indigenous traditions offer hands-on ways to experience this country’s rich culture and history.

This photo released by the Guatemalan government shows two anthropomorphic sculptures that "represent an ancestral couple." - Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and Sports Archaeologists have discovered ...

Sitting atop the largest pyramid in the world in northern Guatemala’s ancient Mayan city El Mirador, I tried to imagine how the city below looked nearly 2,500 years ago. Standing nearby, the site’s ...

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

Archaeologists working in one of the most impenetrable rain forests in Guatemala have stumbled on a remarkable discovery: a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations. The buried room ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries. Pushing out criminal gangs and protecting the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An altar from the ...

Among the 20 dialects spoken within Guatemala’s Q'eqchi language family, only one word is unchanged in all tongues: Ixim. Pronounced “ee-sheem”, ixim means corn, and this beloved crop is integral to ...