The study determined that Maya society saw a sharp increase in population that peaked around 730 A.D. at 19,000 people. According to researchers, the spike likely occurred thanks to the emergence ...

Genomes from ancient Maya people reveal collapse of population and civilization 1,200 years ago; ... Many archeologists have assumed the Maya primarily grew corn, or maize, ...

The study determined that Maya society saw a sharp increase in population that peaked around 730 A.D. at 19,000 people. According to researchers, the spike likely occurred thanks to the emergence ...

The Maya usually consumed their cacao as a hot drink, a steamy broth served in a clay cup. One of the earliest depictions of it used in exchange dates to the mid-7th century.

Recent analyses suggest that those first settlers came from South America and likely developed their staple food, maize, by 4000 B.C. Maize cultivation dramatically changed the Maya’s trajectory ...

Maize was certainly a primary focus of ritual and religious veneration by ancient Meso-American people, going back all the way before the Maya and even into the Olmec civilisation.' ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people.

In Santa Cruz, a Mopan Maya settlement tucked into the jungle in southern Belize, there’s a delicate balance between welcoming tourism and safeguarding tradition.

Map of the Maya World In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America.