A vast array of ancient fish-trapping facilities created by the direct ancestors of the Maya has been discovered in Belize. The facilities were capable of capturing enough fish to feed up to 15,000 ...

Hundreds of years after its downfall, the Maya empire still holds plenty of secrets. The pre-Columbian civilization started over 4,000 years ago and at its peak sprawled throughout what is now ...

Today, let's talk about the mysterious Maya civilization. The Maya civilization is incredibly enigmatic, filled with various ...

Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the ...

Jade inlays, typically reserved for adults, have been discovered on the teeth of young Maya children aged only 8 to 10 years, ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived in southeastern Mexico and northern Central America in the early 800s. A hundred years later ...

A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...

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Laser scans and other evidence show the Maya persisted in rural areas long after big cities collapsed. The Maya are known for their impressive pyramid complexes, like this one known as El Castillo at ...