📷 JancickaL · Pixabay
Where in the world
Guatemala
Tikal
Maya · Guatemala
Field notes
- civilizations
- Maya
- types
- City · Ceremonial pyramid · Temple · Palace · Ballcourt
- built
- 400 BCE — 850 CE
- occupied
- 800 BCE — 950 CE
- country
- Guatemala
The site
Tikal is a monumental Maya city in Guatemala, first built around 400 BCE and occupied for well over a millennium. Its ceremonial core bristles with steep temple pyramids, sprawling palaces, and ballcourts arranged around great plazas. As one of the largest of all Maya centers, Tikal reveals how a rainforest metropolis organized its ritual and political life across many centuries.
