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 ...

The discovery of an early ninth century burning event marks a turning point in Maya rule, archeologists ... once been part of the contents of a Late Classic royal tomb, and the deposit was part ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived in southeastern Mexico and northern Central America in the early 800s. A hundred years later ...

Rising to power in the wake of the Classic Maya collapse, Chichén Itzá was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual ...

From this perspective, the post-classic Maya period is an example of resilience and transformation, not collapse. This dispute nicely illustrates our claim that loss of social complexity is not ...