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 ...

The Maya civilization, spanning modern-day Mexico ... They analyzed existing aerial lidar scans to map structures concealed ...

But enough of them reach the ground to create a complete map of the landscape ... says Golden. “The Maya are often viewed as a cautionary tale about climate change — this great civilization collapses ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived ... unearths remnants of a civilization of warriors, artists, and kings that still feels ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of ... Using an interactive map, visit 15 of the better-known Maya sites.—Peter Tyson ...