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 ...

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 ...

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 ...