(CERIGUA/IFEX) – The body of Miguel Ángel Amaya Pérez, 23, a recently-hired announcer for Sabana radio station, was found in the town of Santa Elena, a municipality in the Petén department, 515 ...

This Vibrant Colonial City Is in a Volcanic Hot Spot This Vibrant Colonial City Is in a Volcanic Hot Spot Explore the Maya ruins of Guatemala's Petén department Explore the Maya ruins of ...

But other relics wound up in much smaller collections — like the one I come across by chance on a small private island in Lake Petén Itzá, far from the capital in the country’s wild north.

In April, scientists discovered a 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture at Tikal, elsewhere in the Peten department. That find was interpreted as proof of ties between the ...