There's also strong evidence that the Mayan approach to forestry and water management could have added to the the dry spells. Their methods may have worked while cities were still growing ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

A hundred years later, dozens of once-thriving Maya cities were almost entirely depopulated. What went wrong? Charles Golden, P’28, a Brandeis anthropologist, and Andrew Scherer, a bioarchaeologist at ...

If you've ever visited Cancun or Playa del Carmen in Mexico, then you’ve likely heard about the Mayans. They are the indigenous culture that ruled southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El ...

His theory? That the Maya built their cities based on constellations, and according to his research, there should be a missing ruin hidden in the Mexican jungle. The Teenager and the Lost Maya ...

Hopefully you will now tell it too. From around 1517 - 1697 Spanish invaders (conquistadores) started to destroy the Maya cities and people. The Spanish were armed with artillery, steel swords and ...

This documentary has exclusive access to a startling research project that is revealing an ancient hidden civilisation in Central America and transforming what we ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...