Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

The ancestors of the Ancient Maya used an ingenious method of food collection that enabled their population to grow.

While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest ... Spanish for "place of the ceiba tree," Seibal had a checkered history. First inhabited in the Middle Preclassic ...

When the people of Holmul added a new layer ... And then, all of a sudden, we were in the middle of the most exciting part of Maya history.” The story of the discovery of the Kaanul, or Snakes ...

the longest reigning Maya king in history. What happened to the Mayas? Discover what happened to the Maya people and explore some possible causes for their decline. Who were the ancient Maya?

The great Maya civilisation collapsed not ... different from the works of any other people, their uses and purposes and whole history so entirely unknown, with hieroglyphs explaining all but ...

there was a hypocrisy of actual facts because there we couldn't even see the impression that black people had made upon European history. So we were even wiped out of there. - [Maya] Yeah.

“People say, ‘Is your life like Indiana ... They are the main protagonists in the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of myths, history, traditions and the Maya story of how the world was created.

calendars and history. People believed that the kings were chosen to rule by gods (divine right to rule). The Maya kings became the high priests during the Classic period (250-900 AD). During the ...