Find out who the ancient Maya were, where they lived and what they did. What were homes in the ancient Maya civilisation like? Find out what Maya homes were made of and what they looked like.

Hello future people of the UK! I’m going to show you how the Ancient Maya live. But, to see that you’ve got to travel back 1000 years. Before your grandparents, before Queen Victoria ...

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 ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived ... unearths remnants of a civilization of warriors, artists, and kings that still feels ...

Why the idea that the Maya civilization ‘collapsed’ is wrong Why the idea that the Maya civilization ‘collapsed’ is wrong What really caused the collapse of the Maya civilization?

There are still Mayan cities and sites being discovered. The Classic Maya civilization grew to about 40 cities at its peak.

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended ...