Researchers saw a subsequent decline in population around 750 A.D., “coinciding with the onset of the collapse of Classic Maya civilization,” according to the paper.

Researchers in Belize discovered what may be the tomb of Caracol’s first dynastic leader, Te K’ab Chaak.Previous excavations ...

A long-standing idea that Classic Maya civilization, which covered parts of southern Mexico and much of Central America, once contained relatively small city-states ruled by warring kings has ...

During the fall of the Maya civilization over 1,000 years ago, kings were killed in public, captives were taken hostage, and in one notably violent event in the city of Aguateca, Maya fled their ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of ...

The height of the Mayan empire, known as the Classic period, reached from approximately A.D. 250 to at least A.D. 900. The ancient Maya had what was arguably the most advanced civilization in the ...

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.

The Olmecs were also masters in the carving of jade.I was involved in locating the original Olmec and Maya jadeite sources in highland eastern Guatemala, found in stone outcrops often located about ...