The Maya Collapse: How a 2,000-Year Civilization Collapses
Between roughly 800 and 1000 CE, the great Maya cities of the southern lowlands—Tikal, Calakmul, Copán, Palenque—were abandoned. Populations dispersed. The jungle took the monuments. A civilization that had flourished for two thousand years, with writing, mathematics, and astronomy far ahead of its neighbors, contracted dramatically. First, the correction: the Maya didn’t disappear. Millions of […]