From this perspective, the post-classic Maya period is an example of resilience and transformation, not collapse. This dispute nicely illustrates our claim that loss of social complexity is not ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery is shedding a new light on one of history’s biggest enigmas – the collapse of central ... marked the decline of classic Maya civilisation throughout ...

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ago. The site was a thriving settlement during the Classic Maya ...