Archaeologists recently made the first discovery of a Teotihuacan-style altar within a Maya city. The find offers early ...

There have been several theories posited over the years, some of which we will run through here. To think of the Mayans as ...

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

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 ...

The fall of the ancient Maya civilisation came gradually — as did the disappearance of its centres of power, each one slowly reclaimed by the creeping jungle. Mighty cities were lost for centuries, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you've ever visited Cancun or Playa del Carmen in Mexico, then you’ve likely heard about the Mayans. They are the ...