New lidar research shows the Maya civilization peaked at 16 million people, revealing dense cities and vast rural networks.

Chemical evidence from a stalagmite in Mexico has revealed that the Classic Maya civilization’s decline coincided with repeated severe wet-season droughts, including one that lasted 13 years. These ...

The Maya civilization suffered multiple severe droughts in the final centuries of their society, including one that lasted 13 ...

New research based on stalagmite analysis suggests a historic drought may have contributed to the society’s decline ...

The first of these droughts began in 894. It was followed by a year with normal rainfall, then another five consecutive years ...

A stalagmite deep inside a cave in Mexico has revealed just how long and severe droughts were during one of the most ...

Reports explained that access to these rural settlements buried beneath forests in the Maya Lowlands of the Yucatan r ...

In recent years, a number of new findings belonging to the ancient Maya have been identified, including the discovery of a ...

New exhibit in LA highlights Maya civilization’s legacy, both past and present Maya hieroglyphics on a stone panel in the “Maya: The Exhibition” at the California Science Center.

Researchers saw a subsequent decline in population around 750 A.D., “coinciding with the onset of the collapse of Classic Maya civilization,” according to the paper.

Mayan society at its peak During the Classic period (200-900 A.D.), the Maya civilization reached its peak.