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 ...

Their calendar did NOT predict the end of the ... An island Mayan city survived until the 17th century. Long after other ...

This alignment with the solar calendar highlights the Mayan's deep ... and visions of the Mayan civilization.

Image caption, Maya people were very clever. They invented the most well-developed system of writing in Mesoamerica, calendars that helped them to farm crops throughout the year and built cities ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived in southeastern Mexico ... Deep in the Mexican jungle, anthropological archaeologist Charles ...