![]() ![]() But a combination of catastrophic events caused many to abandon their homes and towns thousands of years ago, leaving ruins to be uncovered centuries later. The Maya people never truly disappeared the descendants of the ancient civilization still live throughout Central America. ![]() "If you get a map of the state of Campeche and you throw a dart at it - well, where the dart hits, there'll be a Maya settlement," explained Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, an assistant professor at the University of Houston.įor decades, archaeologists thought this area's ultra-dense and fairly dry landscape would have been too harsh to sustain early settlements of the Maya civilization - the culturally sophisticated Mesoamerican society that dominated the region from roughly 250 B.C.E. ![]() It's not every day that modern researchers uncover an ancient lost city.īut for a network of scientists exploring Mexico's central Yucatan Peninsula, that very phenomenon is becoming so common that it's become the butt of a joke. ![]()
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