A CONSPIRACY theorist claims that the ancient Mayan civilization has predicted that the world will end this week. The bizarre claim is a follow on from the theory that the world was supposed to end in ...

Fascinating new research suggests that climate change may have been responsible for the end of ancient Mayan civilization. According to findings published in the November issue of Science, ...

Mayan Tree Chopping May Have Worsened Droughts, and Contributed to The Civilization's Demise Explore the impact of the Mayan rain god Chac on civilization collapse due to deforestation-induced ...

With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has ...

Scientists have long thought severe drought conditions and limited rainfall led to the decline of the Classic Mayan civilisation (300 to 1000 CE) but could never quite confirm the theory. However, now ...

A team of researchers at Austria’s TU Wien suggest that irrigation technology is what led to the demise of the Mayan civilization. Victor Ruiz Garcia/REUTERS The irrigation technology that helped the ...

The Mayan civilization came to an abrupt and inexplicable end around the year 900 AD, but the culture of the ancient tribe lived on not only in the spectacular pyramids, but also in the people who ...

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 ...