Archaeologists found the remains of three children under the age of four alongside the artifact — suggesting that it was once ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

CONACULTA, INAH, MEXICO The next 30 years of Maya history are a bit fuzzy ... big city—maybe 10,000 people—but it was a beacon of civilization and a gateway for trade to the west, a prime ...

The impact that other civilizations have had on the Maya is just beginning to be understood ... the most profound cultural failures in human history” have been debated for a century.

When most people think of ancient Maya civilization, they imagine godlike kings building towering pyramids and reveling in bloody human sacrifice. But commoners also played a significant role in the ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created ... likely had abundant crops when Maya civilization collapsed during the eighth and ninth ...

The altar reveals the presence of powerful rulers from Teotihuacan who were there at a time when a coup ousted Tikal’s Maya ...

A civilization dries up By the time of Tikal's decline sometime around 900, Maya civilization and culture had been developing for at least 1,000 years and the empire had amassed an estimated ...

“I realized at that moment the whole evolutionary model for the economic, cultural and social history of the Maya ... of public architecture in all of Maya civilization. I asked Hansen, if ...

But so much more than being the architects of these ancient cities, the Mayan ... facts about the Mayans. There are still ...