A pair of chert points found alongside human skeletons in a cave in Belize may represent the first known tattooing needles ...

Even more surprising, however, is the altar’s history. Archaeologists found the remains of ... was once a powerful hub of the Maya civilization. During its peak, between 200 and 900 C.E., it was a ...

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 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.

“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 ...

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 ...

The city spans an area similar in size to Beijing, signalling its role as a likely political center of the Maya civilization over 1,500 years ago. Archaeologists report that Valeriana contains ...