Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout the pre-Columbian ...

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 ...

Their calendar did NOT predict the end of the ... An island Mayan city survived until the 17th century. Long after other Mayan civilizations had been abandoned or destroyed, there was one that ...

The Maya civilization had one of the most intricate religious systems in the ancient world. From powerful gods like the maize god and the rain god Chaac to the complex calendar cycles and ancestor ...

Image caption, Maya people were very clever. They invented the most well-developed system of writing in Mesoamerica, calendars that helped them to farm crops throughout the year and built cities ...

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 ...

“The Maya are often viewed as a cautionary tale about climate change — this great civilization collapses simply because of a drought. Well, that’s not quite what happened,” he says. “And even if ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds ... a complex religion based on a host of gods, a unique calendar, and ceremonies that featured a ball game and ...

What did the Maya invent? Find out about Maya inventions and innovations including: roads, calendars and tools. What did the ancient Maya believe in? Learn about some of the Maya gods and discover ...