For years, researchers pointed at wars, famine and the possibility of invaders taking over Mayan communities. It wasn’t until the mid-1990s that archaeologists began pointing to a devastating ...

Thirst and famine don't do much for keeping a populace happy. The rest, as the saying goes, is history. "In some of the Maya city-states, mass graves have been found containing groups of skeletons ...

and famine ravaged the population. Choco adds that taking visitors to the caves allows him to share Maya history and how its legacy is not limited to the past. “The world must know we are still ...

The villagers grew a crop that may explain how the Maya handled famine. In 2007, archaeologists excavating in the agricultural fields outside the village found the first evidence the Maya grew ...

famine and death. The Maya ruler-priests ventured deeper and deeper into the lair of the underworld gods, making ever more elaborate sacrifices in an attempt to stave off the collapse of the great ...

This was followed by an extended drought between AD 1020 and 1100 that likely corresponded with crop failures, death, famine, migration and, ultimately, the collapse of the Maya population.

This was followed by an extended drought between 1020 and 1100 AD that likely corresponded with crop failures, death, famine, migration and, ultimately, the collapse of the Maya population.

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 ...