DNA reveals Maya genetic continuity over 3,000 years Copán elites had ties to highland Mexican populations Collapse was not extinction, but cultural transformation ...

Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

Researchers have tried to look beyond simplistic catastrophizing to the myriad complexities and regional idiosyncrasies that might explain the collapse of the Maya civilization. This collapse ...

An international team of archaeologists discovered an ancient Mayan city in a northeastern area of Guatemala known for its ...

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of ...

“Definitely, the idea of the collapse of the Maya in the Postclassic ... “You’ll hear that Maya civilization ended in 1000 A.D. It didn’t,” Masson says. “The Postclassic period is ...

An international team of researchers sequenced the genomes of seven individuals who lived in the ancient Maya city of Copán, ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala, revealing sanctuaries, ...

Mayan civilization is believed to have supported ... I regularly assigned Collapse as a required text. Even then, a decade ago, many of them suggested that we were beginning to face severe climate ...

The city of "Los Abuelos" takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an "ancestral couple" found at the site.