A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...

Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the ...

Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland? Flames from the Caldor Fire crown in trees at Echo Lake, Calif., in August ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing body of climate research now points to a simpler, starker driver: water, and ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - For a clue to the possible impact of climate change on modern society, a study suggests a look back at the end of classic Maya civilization, which disintegrated into ...

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MEXICO CITY — A previously unknown ancient Maya city has been discovered in the jungles of southern Mexico, the country’s anthropology institute said on Tuesday, adding it was likely an important ...

Archaeologists found a road, multiple pyramids, and a large rectangular structure. (all images courtesy National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico) On Mexico's southern Gulf coast, a ...

In The Watchman’s Rattle, subtitled Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction, Rebecca Costa delivers a fascinating account of how civilizations die. When their problems become too complex, societies reach ...