About 40 miles to the south of El Mirador in Guatemala’s Petén region is Tikal, another major site of Maya civilization—its largest city during the Maya Classic period.

El Mirador, or the Lookout, is considered the cradle of Maya civilization, the birthplace of its language, art, mythology and architecture. It was ruled by the dynasty of Reino Kan, or the Serpent ...

El Mirador, Guatemala — BEFORE the torrential rain and the ankle-deep mud, before the quarter-sized blister and the mouse-sized cockroach, before all that, I climbed a 2,000-year-old Maya ...

Predawn in the jungle can be a sombre affair. Low cloud clung to the 60-metre mahogany and machete-scarred zapote trees as we followed the root-strewn path west. The terrain of Peten province's El ...

EL MIRADOR, Guatemala — The heat was unbearable and the trees seemed to reach endlessly skyward. Suddenly, from out of the vegetation, the Jaguar Paw pyramid appeared. Archaeologist Richard ...

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 ...

GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA--(Marketwired - September 14, 2015) - Last month, Morgan Freeman, producer and renowned Academy Award winning actor, visited the pre-Columbian Mayan settlement of El ...

El Mirador today is part of the Mirador-Río Azul National Park, which itself is part of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, an 8,100-square-mile tract of rain forest in northern Guatemala.

Discovery’s hit docuseries Expedition Unknown is back in action as Josh Gates takes us to South America, specifically Guatemala. We venture into El Mirador, a place where a large pre-Columbian ...

El Mirador is a pre-Columbian Mayan settlement, located to the north of El Peten in Guatemala, first photographed from the air in 1930, but its remote location meant further exploration was limited.