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GUATEMALAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND SPORTS ... the city of their most hated enemy. Just as Tikal dominated the Maya lowlands for centuries, it has dominated Maya archaeology since the 1950s.

The Classic Maya civilization grew to about 40 cities at ... 250 A.D. This is the period when we saw the reign of cities like Tikal, Bonampak, Calakmul and Palenque. Each city had anywhere from ...

They also tried hard to remove all traces of Maya culture over the following centuries ... This is the city of Tikal. Many years ago it would have been called 'Yax Mutal' and was home to thousands ...

From a tourism standpoint, Guatemala is still a relative newcomer compared to some of its neighbours, but the country is ...

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 ...