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In times of trouble, the Maya rejected divine kingship. This newly discovered public building reveals how the transition to shared power unfolded
Around 810 C.E., a man named Papmalil rose to power in Ucanal, a Maya city in what is now northern Guatemala. Linguistic ...
The mysterious collapse of the Maya civilization may not have been driven solely by drought after all. New evidence from lake sediments in Guatemala reveals that one key city, Itzan, enjoyed a stable ...
Mexican archaeologists have registered a sprawling ancient Maya city in southern Quintana Roo after local residents flagged ...
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How the Maya script was lost, burned, and finally decoded, the long road back to a forgotten civilization
When Spanish inquisitors torched the sacred books of the Maya in 1562, they nearly erased one of history's most sophisticated ...
The new information dramatically recontexualizes what’s known about the ancient civilization. New research led by Tulane University and published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...
The tomb of a Mayan king has been discovered by Texas archaeologists in Caracol, Belize, marking the first time researchers in the ancient city have found a ruler's identifiable resting place. Caracol ...
Depictions of dogs in Maya art and archaeological finds point to a variety of possible roles in the ancient culture. Some Maya vases depict dogs walking below a ruler's hammock, which has been ...
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