An ancient Maya city reveals its secrets to solve one of history’s biggest enigmas
A remarkable archaeological discovery is shedding a new light on one of history’s biggest enigmas – the collapse of central America’s ancient Maya civilisation.
This new discovery – the ritual destruction of the symbolic icons of a deposed royal dynasty – is helping to reveal the complexity of that decline.
Together with historical data from transcribed Maya hieroglyphic texts from other sites, the discovery, at Ucanal in northern Guatemala, provides a unique glimpse of the political instability that seems to have fundamentally changed Maya history.
Archaeologists believe that the new discovery
