In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ago. The site was a thriving settlement during the Classic Maya ...

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 Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 31, No. 1, Jan. - Mar., 1927 New Light on the Discovery of Yucatan, a... New Light on the Discovery of Yucatan, and ...

likely had abundant crops when Maya civilization collapsed during the eighth and ninth centuries. The research also shows the region’s three main kingdoms were each functioning in very different ways.

The Maya grew root crops like sweet potatoes and cassava along with maize ... Deep in the Mexican jungle, anthropological archaeologist Charles Golden, P’28, unearths remnants of a civilization of ...

After two years of dialogue and coordinated work between the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and ejidal ...

However, the Maya civilization would beg to differ. Ancient Mayans and their predecessors were making and using rubber thousands of years before Mr. Goodyear’s name was first plastered on blimps.

Gadoury first became obsessed with the Maya when his grandfather took him on a trip to the great site of Chichén Itzá in Mexico. He pored over books about the civilization, studying every ...

Fascinated by scholars' writings on the Maya and by new advancements in photography, Maudslay set out to create as complete a record as possible of the civilization's architecture and art.