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 ...

This alignment with the solar calendar highlights the Mayan's deep ... and visions of the Mayan civilization.

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 ...

“For the longest time,” Auld-Thomas said, “our sample of the Maya civilization was a couple of hundred square kilometers total. That sample was hard won by archaeologists who painstakingly ...