The fall of the ancient Maya civilisation came gradually — as did the disappearance of its centres of power, each one slowly reclaimed by the creeping jungle. Mighty cities were lost for centuries, ...

Current time and date at El Peten Airport is 11:03:38 AM (CST) on Friday, Nov 14, 2025 Looking for information on El Peten Airport, Tikal, Guatemala? Know about El Peten Airport in detail. Find out ...

A team of archaeologists in Guatemala has discovered a council house dating back about 700 years with altars, incense burners and sculpted images of animals. Located at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' in ...

This weekend in Guatemala was the bloodiest of 2011. Citizens in El Petén, the northernmost department (state) of Guatemala bordering Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua and Mexico, are in the middle of one ...

When it comes to tracking treasures of antiquity, your average American traveler will usually set his or her sights across the Atlantic on the ruins of the Roman Empire in Italy, the temples of ...

Patrocinio Garcia, 66, sows beans on a crop of corn that did not produce due to the severe drought in Paquen, Guatemala, on Sept. 5, 2001. In 2015, another stretch of drought and shifting rain ...

SAN BENITO, Guatemala - Guatemala declared a 30-day state of emergency for the northern Peten region following the brutal massacre of 27 people at a cattle ranch. President Alvaro Colom called the ...

The governor of Guatemala’s embattled frontier province Peten has asked the federal government to declare a state of siege in his department as Mexico’s cartels continue to spread their tentacles into ...

Petén Guatemala Restaurant, which features a variety of traditional Guatemalan dishes, has opened in Mount Joy Borough. The new restaurant at 89 E. Main St. has a menu that includes tacos, enchiladas, ...

Blood samples were analyzed from 30 domestic cats (Felis domesticus) from the Petén region of Guatemala to determine the seroprevalence of common pathogens that may pose a potential risk to native ...