New research suggests that explanations based only on climate may not fully account for the major decline of the lowland ...

The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya David Stuart Princeton Univ. Press (2026) Before the 1970s, ancient Maya history was impenetrable. The civilization’s grand ceremonial buildings and ...

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 Texas ...

Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the ...

Researchers analyzing the genomes of seven ancient Maya individuals buried in Copán, Honduras, have unveiled new insights into the population collapse and social shifts that marked the end of the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For a clue to the possible impact of climate change on modern society, a study suggests a look back at the end of classic Maya civilization, which disintegrated into famine, war ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How did military conflict fit into the end of a mighty civilization? AP Photo/Moises Castillo Two trophy skulls, discovered by ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - For a clue to the possible impact of climate change on modern society, a study suggests a look back at the end of classic Maya civilization, which disintegrated into ...

Yucatán Peninsula Lake recording the isotopic composition of rainfall. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 24, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Martin ...

Stalagmite climate archive growing on top of an archaeological archive (Mayan pottery) in a northwest Yucatán Peninsula cave. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 24, 2012, issue of ...