The Maya civilization (/ ˈ m aɪ ə /) was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period. It is known by its ancient temples and glyphs (script). The Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas.

4 天之前 · Maya, the Mesoamerican Indians occupying a nearly continuous territory in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and northern Belize. Before the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America, the Maya possessed one of the greatest civilizations of the Western Hemisphere. Learn more about the Maya here.

2009年10月29日 · The Classic Period, which began around A.D. 250, was the golden age of the Maya Empire. Classic Maya civilization grew to some 40 cities, including Tikal, Uaxactún, Copán, Bonampak, Dos Pilas ...

The Classic period (250 CE to 900 CE) is considered the height of the Maya civilization, characterized by great accomplishments like distinctive writing and calendric systems polychrome ceramics

The Maya came up with the most well-developed system of writing in Mesoamerica, dating back to 300 BC. Almost all written texts were destroyed during the Spanish conquest in the 16th century AD...

The Mayan civilisation was biggest between the years of 420 AD and 900 AD. The Mayan civilisation spread all the way from central Mexico to Honduras , Guatemala , and northern El Salvador . It is estimated that at its maximum, the civilization had at least ten million people. [ 1 ]

Maya , Group of Mesoamerican Indians who between ad 250 and 900 developed one of the Western Hemisphere’s greatest civilizations. By ad 200 they had developed cities containing palaces, temples, plazas, and ball courts. They used stone tools to quarry the immense quantities of stone needed for those structures; their sculpture and relief ...

The history of Maya civilization is divided into three principal periods: the Preclassic, Classic and Postclassic periods; [1] these were preceded by the Archaic Period, which saw the first settled villages and early developments in agriculture. [2] .

This Maya vase from the Guatemalan Highlands dates from AD 600–900, the Late Classic Maya period. Experts believed that scenes such as this represented gods from the Underworld, but recent scholarship has clarified the role of these horrific creatures as animate spells and personified illnesses sent out by sorcerers.

Hundreds of settlements, large and small, fill a region stretching from Palenque in the west to Altun Há in the east, and from Uxmal in the north to Copán in the south. More than sixty kingdoms, each ruled by a k’uhul ajaw (“divine lord”), compete for control of land, raw materials, and trade routes.