The site was a thriving settlement during the Classic Maya period (A.D. 250-900), a time when writing and culture flourished throughout what is today Central America and southern Mexico.

A 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture has been discovered in the erstwhile Mayan city of Tikal in ...

The artifacts cover the Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Mesoamerican Classic, Middle Mesoamerican Preclassic, and Aztec cultures. The collection includes anamorphic and zoomorphic sculptures and renderings ...

testify to the influence of Teotihuacan -- an important site of cultural exchange and innovation in Classic Mesoamerica -- on Mayan civilization. Dated to between 400 and 450 AD, during the ...