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 ...

Whether this story refers to Toltec groups or Itza groups, or is mainly mythical, is a matter of debate. You may like Mysterious Tikal altar that wasn't Maya after all includes at least 4 ...

Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with stepped temple pyramids to rival Chichén Itzá, Río Bec, and Tikal.

In the Yucatan the city of Chichen Itza actually grew, becoming one of the largest Maya cities after the collapse of Tikal. But while Tikal and other cities collapsed, the Maya people live on ...

While other Maya settlements like Chichen Itza remained inhabited well into the 12 th century C.E., Tikal is thought to have collapsed around the year 900. To this day, the reasons for its ...

Laser scans and other evidence show the Maya persisted in rural areas long ... their team examined prior attempts to map the population of the region, focusing on the decades spanning the collapse ...

The Maya civilization is one of the biggest and most famous of pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas. For over 3,000 years, the Mayas lived throughout the Maya Region, which consisted of ...

After analysing the remains of 64 ancient sacrificed individuals, most of whom were children, researchers have revealed new details about human sacrifice at the ancient Maya site of Chichén Itzá.

Inhabitants of the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá are well-known for their practice of ritual human sacrifice. The most prevalent notion in the popular imagination is that of young Maya women ...