Yaxnohcah managed to maintain a city for so long because of the way they sustainably managed their water supply and agriculture. “It shows the organization of the Maya — their engineering, their ...

“You couldn’t feed as many people as the ancient Maya did with the kind of slash-and-burn agriculture people in this part of the world use today,” says Tulane’s Canuto, who models ...

For millennia, the Maya people of Guatemala have been practising a unique agricultural system that fuses sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation. Based on the ...

Scientists studied the genetic makeup of seven Maya individuals—including one who was the victim of human sacrifice.

Photograph by Nadia Shira Cohen, National Geographic Maya agriculture revolves around a seasonal rotation of crops called the milpa. Here, De Celio Salazar Chan offers corn husks and a corn-honey ...