The Maya people were expert farmers and created hundreds ... The Mayans were one of the earliest civilizations to incorporate tattoos into their lives. Both men and women would decorate themselves ...

Just as Tikal dominated the Maya lowlands for centuries ... It wasn’t a big city—maybe 10,000 people—but it was a beacon of civilization and a gateway for trade to the west, a prime target ...

Researchers have found a treasure trove of structures from an ancient civilization — by using a modern technology.

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 ...

“What all that infrastructure suggests is that people in the countryside ... says Golden. “The Maya are often viewed as a cautionary tale about climate change — this great civilization collapses ...

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 ...

What foods did the Maya eat? Find out what food people grew and ate in the Maya civilisation. What games did the Mayas play? Find out about the famous Maya ball game and learn the importance of ...

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 ...