Tikal

[ tee-kahl ]

noun

1. an ancient Mayan city occupied c200 b.c. to a.d. 900, an important center of Mayan civilization, situated in Petén in the jungles of northern Guatemala and the site of significant archaeological discoveries in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Example Sentences

That matches other recent research from the lowland city of Tikal, home to the biggest known Maya temple complex, and the epicenter of a massive suburban sprawl in the jungle.

From Popular-Science

If true, that would add more evidence to an idea that scientists have worked on for decades — that these civilizations were in contact much earlier than the conquest of Tikal, possibly trading and making political connections with one another.

From Science News

That means that the Tikal complex possibly predates the Teotihuacan conquest of the Maya city in 378.

From Science News

The finding adds to evidence of Teotihuacan’s influence over Tikal, the team reports September 28 in Antiquity.

From Science News

Now, more than a thousand kilometers away at the Maya capital of Tikal in what’s now Guatemala, researchers have found a smaller plaza and pyramid possibly modeled after La Ciudadela and its temple.

From Science News

One of the largest sites of pre-Columbian Mayan ruins, Tikal was once one of the most important cities in the Mayan world.

From The Daily Beast

This symbolical figure is found also at Tikal carved in wood.

From Project Gutenberg

The bas-reliefs at Palenque, Lorillard, and Tikal tell this story very plainly.

From Project Gutenberg

From Tikal the civilising column advanced towards the north of the peninsula.

From Project Gutenberg

Tikal is forty miles north-east of Flores, towards the south of the peninsula.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Bowditch has included also in his list of kin signs the form shown in figure 34, l, from an inscription at Tikal.

From Project Gutenberg