Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

A civilization dries up By the time of Tikal's decline sometime around 900, Maya civilization and culture had been developing for at least 1,000 years and the empire had amassed an estimated ...

The Maya civilization’s collapse during the ninth century has long been attributed to warfare, climate change, peasant revolts or foreign invaders. Golden and Scherer argue the society was a victim of ...

The ancestors of the Ancient Maya used an ingenious method of food collection that enabled their population to grow.

Golden and Scherer argue the Maya collapse was less a collapse and more a gradual process ... P’28, unearths remnants of a civilization of warriors, artists, and kings that still feels present and ...

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 ...

"It's increasingly clear that this was an extraordinary period of turbulence at Tikal," study coauthor Stephen Houston, an ...

Growing worries over climate change have sparked interest in the collapse of ancient civilizations and the ... fertility caused the collapse of key Mayan regions starting around 800 CE.

Archaeologists in Guatemala uncover a Teotihuacan altar in Tikal, revealing ancient cultural and spiritual ties with the Maya ...