Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

According to countless studies, the Maya civilization collapsed between A.D. 800 and 1000. But though the term "Maya collapse" brings up images of ruins overgrown with forests and of an ancient ...

These events deteriorated major Mayan city centers ... new findings do not completely solve the mystery of why the civilization collapsed, it gives better hints as to how it came undone, according ...

Why did the Maya, a remarkably sophisticated civilization made up of more than 19 million people, suddenly collapse sometime during the 8th or 9th centuries? Although the Mayan people never ...

Researchers have tried to look beyond simplistic catastrophizing to the myriad complexities and regional idiosyncrasies that might explain the collapse of the Maya civilization. This collapse ...

Mayan civilization is believed to have supported ... Still, in the end, each collapsed utterly and their inhabitants either died of starvation, slaughtered each other, or migrated elsewhere ...

created in the civilization’s late Classic period, c. 600-900 A.D. Although some northern cities continued to flourish, the majority of Maya centers began to collapse during the ninth and tenth ...

Then, around A.D. 900 Mayan civilization disintegrated. Two new studies examine the reasons for the collapse of the Mayan culture, finding the Mayans themselves contributed to the downfall of the ...

The paper, by Martin Medina-Elizalde at the University of Southampton in Southampton, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Related to Modest Reduction in ...

Compounded with persistent drought, lack of drinking water, diminishing crops, and proliferating disease, the Mayans met the perfect storm for the collapse of a civilization. Easter Island The ...