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 ...

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 ...

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of Campeche.

From this perspective, the post-classic Maya period is an example of resilience and transformation, not collapse. This dispute nicely illustrates our claim that loss of social complexity is not ...

dates to the Classic period (A.D. 250 to 900), and shows "all the hallmarks of a Classic Maya political capital," including multiple enclosed plazas connected by a broad causeway, temple pyramids ...