Mayans may have caused own apocalypse

Monday, December 5, 2011 - 18:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

For generations, the Maya thrived in an advanced, complex civilization in modern-day Central America. But then their society collapsed in the eighth and ninth centuries. Now, a new study finds that the Maya may have had a hand in their own apocalypse.

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