A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived in southeastern Mexico and northern Central America in the early 800s. A hundred years later ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

A student found a lost Maya city the size of Washington, D.C. buried under the thick jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

Three sites around the size of the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, were discovered 'by accident' - after one archaeologist ...

The paper, by Martin Medina-Elizalde at the University of Southampton in Southampton, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Related to Modest Reduction in ...

Notably, the Maya civilisation spanned southeast Mexico and parts of Central America and was known for its advanced mathematical calendars. Widespread political collapse led to its decline ...

The new city, dubbed Valeriana, was a dense urban settlement with temple pyramids and a ball court. Laser surveys have ...

A huge lost city has been found in the jungle in Mexico. The city was built by Maya people hundreds of years ago.

According to Mr Sprajc the site probably underwent considerable changes between 800 and 1000 AD before falling victim to the collapse of the Lowland Maya civilisation in the 10th Century.

On the one side, it is claimed that factors such as drought and declining soil fertility caused the collapse of key Mayan regions starting around 800 CE. These researchers often cite population ...

Auld-Thomas and his colleagues, who published their findings Monday in the journal Antiquity, call the city Valeriana, after ...