Aboveground the crew of Maya farmers, in shorts and flip-flops, had to work hard to haul the explorers up again. Around us were rustling cornfields that had been waiting for the rain too long ...

Jade Skirt: Us Maya have really healthy diets. As well as the maize, beans and squash we grow to eat, we also produce cotton to make cloth and flowers for decoration. We hunt deer, fish and birds ...

located near a modern highway where local farmers had been working among the ruins for years without realizing their ...

The Maya were very skilled farmers and also created a very sophisticated written language; some think it might have been the first written language native to the Americans. The Maya also developed ...