Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Golden and Scherer argue the Maya collapse was less a collapse and more a gradual process ... P’28, unearths remnants of a civilization of warriors, artists, and kings that still feels present and ...

leading to the collapse of not only Tikal but dozens of cities in the southern part of the empire. A civilization dries up By the time of Tikal's decline sometime around 900, Maya civilization and ...

The Maya civilization’s collapse during the ninth century has long been attributed to warfare, climate change, peasant revolts or foreign invaders. Golden and Scherer argue the society was a victim of ...

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ago. The site was a thriving settlement during the Classic Maya ...

The ancestors of the Ancient Maya used an ingenious method of food collection that enabled their population to grow.

The altar reveals the presence of powerful rulers from Teotihuacan who were there at a time when a coup ousted Tikal’s Maya ...

The chemical composition of the sediment indicated periods of sparse rainfall during the Mayan decline, thought likely between AD800 and AD1000. The mysterious collapse of the ancient Mayan ...

Growing worries over climate change have sparked interest in the collapse of ancient civilizations and the ... fertility caused the collapse of key Mayan regions starting around 800 CE.

"It's increasingly clear that this was an extraordinary period of turbulence at Tikal," study coauthor Stephen Houston, an expert on Maya civilization at Brown University, said in a statement.

Archaeologists in Guatemala uncover a Teotihuacan altar in Tikal, revealing ancient cultural and spiritual ties with the Maya ...