In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of ... Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of the better-known Maya sites.

Other stelae at Caracol suggest that the key to its triumph was an alliance with Calakmul ... Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization’s abrupt decline.

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of ... Using the labels on or below the map below, visit 15 of the better-known Maya sites.

This property, while nowadays almost uninhabited and covered by tropical forest, is the heartland of the area in which, from the mid-first millennium B.C. to about A.D. 1000, the Maya civilization ...

The site is located in the central/southern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula, in southern Mexico and includes the remains of the important Maya city Calakmul, set deep in the tropical forest of the ...

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ... Masks from the tombs at Calakmul were meant to ease the passage ...