Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Montgomery wrote that the "tomb and shrines [are] equivalent to Tikal's 'Valley of the Kings.'" The North Acropolis appears to have been started sometime between 350 B.C. and 200 B.C. and was ...

Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis ...

Tikal was one of the major metropolises of ... It’s surrounded by yet more temples in the Central Acropolis and at the North Acropolis. Temple 4 was once the tallest building in pre-Colombian ...

TIKAL WAS THE MOST POWERFUL OF MORE THAN 60 ... OVER HERE THIS IS CALLED THE NORTH ACROPOLIS WHERE MANY OF THE KINGS AND IMPORTANT PEOPLE WERE BURIED. AS YOU MOVE AROUND, THE FOREST AND THE ...