Farming was at the centre of ancient Maya life. But these people are also remembered for other amazing creations, like their spectacular buildings and beautiful objects made from jade, a rare and ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived ... contest theories that attribute the collapse to increased warfare, drought, agricultural ...

Agriculture was long thought to be the biggest ... they were used by pre-Maya people and their descendants. The ancient Maya continued to use them between 2000 B.C.E. and 200 C.E. Sign up for ...