One of the largest Classic Maya urban centers, Tikal (ancient Yax Mutal) rose in the Petén rainforest of northern Guatemala, its dynasty founded by Teotihuacan-linked conquerors in the 4th century, and dominated the southern lowlands politically and militarily through centuries of rivalry with Calakmul. This record adds Tikal at city-state granularity alongside the umbrella Classic Maya (Lowland City-States) record, which already covers the wider Tikal-Calakmul-Palenque-Copán constellation.
Following the Late Classic period, monument construction ceased, elite palaces were burned, and the population gradually declined until the city was abandoned by the end of the 10th century, part of the broader southern lowland Maya collapse.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Tikal — the shape you scrub through changes in 250 · 600 · 751 · 761 · 851.
Reconstructs Tikal's dynastic history and its wars with Calakmul from deciphered glyphic texts.
Standard broad survey of Maya civilization with extensive treatment of Tikal's archaeology and political history.