The ancient Maya controlled vast swaths of territory ... “These terraces really helped them to improve their agriculture,” Lentz says, adding that it’s more productive than slash and burn techniques, ...

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 ...

It was a huge trade centre in the heart of Mesoamerica. The Maya were so successful at farming was because they studied the stars and the weather. This meant they were able to create very detailed ...

But research is revealing that the complexity of Maya agricultural systems is likely to have rivalled that of their architecture and intellect. Using new techniques and extensive excavations ...

The city of Tikal, located in what is now Guatemala, was once a major Maya population center and political center. During the Late Classic Period, which lasted from A.D. 600 to A.D. 850, the city ...

But it also changes tradition. Maya milpa farmers are now fighting to practice their ancient agricultural techniques, not because they’ve forgotten or lost those techniques, but because ...

In the 1970s, attempts to map Tikal, a major Maya city in Guatemala, showed that it was so densely populated that the inhabitants must have relied on a kind of agriculture that farmed the same plots ...

It was a huge trade centre in the heart of Mesoamerica. The Maya were so successful at farming was because they studied the stars and the weather. This meant they were able to create very detailed ...