When most people think of ancient Maya civilization, they imagine godlike kings building towering pyramids and reveling in bloody human sacrifice. But commoners also played a significant role in the ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created ... likely had abundant crops when Maya civilization collapsed during the eighth and ninth ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén ... Spanish for "place of the ceiba tree," Seibal had a checkered history. First inhabited in the Middle Preclassic Period around ...

CONACULTA, INAH, MEXICO The next 30 years of Maya history are a bit fuzzy ... big city—maybe 10,000 people—but it was a beacon of civilization and a gateway for trade to the west, a prime ...

Why the idea that the Maya civilization ‘collapsed’ is wrong ... could return to southwestern U.S. Chocolate gets its sweet history rewritten Chocolate gets its sweet history rewritten ...

The duo (left, at the site) began piecing together Palenque's history using a carving ... was spoken compared to modern Maya and have begun to grasp the lost civilization's traditions by reading ...

Life is good for us for another 500 years or so until the Europeans arrive – that’s when the Maya civilisation begins to disappear. And all this? Well, it’ll be History. He tells us about ...

With modern day Maya still living where their ancestors once did, these discoveries help them to recover and reconnect to the parts of their history that were so brutally destroyed by the invading ...

The costumes and accessories are realistic, while bonus fashion tips reveal Mayan beauty standards of sloping foreheads and crossed eyes. This short film is from the BBC series, History of Early ...