Every little piece we can obtain from the excavations is fundamental, like a piece of the larger puzzle we are putting ...

DNA reveals Maya genetic continuity over 3,000 years Copán elites had ties to highland Mexican populations Collapse was not extinction, but cultural transformation ...

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

While DNA has been recovered from other Maya sites before, this is the most detailed genetic snapshot ever taken of individuals who lived in one of the civilization’s most iconic cities.

and at Abu Ghurob in Egypt—technologies that may predate known historical timelines. The series also delves into the possibility of cultural connections between the Maya and ancient Egyptians ...

The textbook timeline of the Maya civilization goes like this: The culture reached its height, known as the Classic period, between A.D. 200 and 900. Over the next century, urban centers fell apart.

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already ...

Next is a timeline of the most important pre-Columbian ... marking the end of a long line of Mesoamerican civilizations that started with the mother culture of them all: the Olmecs.

Many theories have been explored to try and explain the collapse of the Maya civilization. For years ... and record the information found in the soil to construct an accurate timeline of the past ...

The Maya civilization, known for its majestic pyramids ... stable civilization that rivals the timelines of their more famous Central American and Andean counterparts. We do not know what happened ...

For decades, archaeologists thought this area's ultra-dense and fairly dry landscape would have been too harsh to sustain early settlements of the Maya civilization — the culturally ...