Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the ...

Several advanced civilizations emerged in the New World of Mesoamerica (the region stretching roughly from Mexico to ...

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with ...

A long-standing mystery surrounding the Mayan civilization's collapse has been solved. Scientists now believe a self-inflicted environmental disaster, driven by extensive deforestation for agriculture ...

WASHINGTON (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 famine, war ...

Ancient farmers in Belize began growing maize 6,400 years ago, adapting their agricultural practices as the climate changed ...

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 famine, war and collapse as a long ...