Rise and Fall of the Mayas

The Abandoned Mayan Cities (1x3)

Data di messa in onda: Gen 18, 2023

The apogee of the Maya civilization takes place between 250 and 900 A.D. They built gigantic cities in the heart of a hostile nature: Tikal or Calakmul are figures of superpowers. The Maya population numbers around eight million people, spread over some forty cities. But around 900 a strange phenomenon occurs: the abandonment of the Mayan cities. Invasions, climatic disasters, turf wars... The question is still unanswered. This decline is known as the collapse. But how to explain this? Why, at the height of their civilization, the Mayas abandoned their most sumptuous cities, temples, pyramids and palaces. But thanks to today's ever more efficient technologies, and to new discoveries, we go back in time through the city states of the Mayas of Guatemala and Mexico to try to answer these questions. We exclusively follow a team of experts, archaeologists and researchers