An Entire Lost Maya City Was Hiding in Plain Sight Within the Mexican Jungle, Discovered by Accident A groundbreaking ...

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 ...

With an area of about one square mile, Nixtun-Ch’ich’ was unusually compact compared to other Maya cities, which were largely spread out throughout the jungle. Back in 1995, Pugh, now at ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...