Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...

Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic ...

Learn what caused a major population crash in the Maya civilization, driving several cities to fall into ruin.

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 ...

If you're looking for suggestions for things to do during your next trip to the Yucatán Peninsula, we've got dozens.

An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in Colorado in May 2023, ...

— -- Newly discovered wall writings found in Guatemala show the famed Maya culture's obsession with cycles of time. But they also show calendars that go well beyond 2012, the year when the ...

Pt. 1. The Mesoamerican open space as illusion of traditional identity : The Role of architecture ; Mesoamerica ; Place-making illusion in Mesoamerican culture ; The Mesoamerican open space at the ...

When you compare how movies and TV treat Mesoamerican culture and mythology to how they treat the Ancient Greek world, it’s not hard to see the difference. (Though we won’t get too deep into the ...