The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient ...

Ancient Maya culture was centered on interconnected city-states that developed great networks of trade and agriculture and ...

They brought new diseases and tried to remove all traces of Maya culture. Only a few structures and artefacts remain today. Civilisation A society of people who live in cities and share ways of ...

The site was a thriving settlement during the Classic Maya period (A.D. 250-900), a time when writing and culture flourished throughout what is today Central America and southern Mexico.

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created by severe, prolonged drought. But new research led by Brandeis anthropologist Charles ...

They also tried hard to remove all traces of Maya culture over the following centuries. Jade Skirt: Many hundreds of years from now, I hope people will still be able to admire the things we Maya ...

Read almost any of the Maya's ancient writings and it's clear that numbers played a significant role in their culture—there are few documents that don't contain at least some. As you might ...

Archaeological evidence attests to a rich culture of music and dance among the ancient Maya as well—perhaps they used these talents to bring the quests of the Popol Vuh’s mythical Hero Twins ...