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 Mayan civilizations had been abandoned or destroyed, there was one that ...

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

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant ...

Have archaeologists already discovered all of the major ancient Maya monuments—or is there still much more to be found?

Ancient fish-trapping facilities in Belize's wetlands, dating back to 2000 BCE, supported early population growth in the ...

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 ...