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Satellite view of the Yucatán Peninsula. The Maya civilization occupied the Maya Region, a wide territory that included southeastern Mexico and northern Central America; this area included the entire Yucatán Peninsula, and all of the territory now incorporated into the modern countries of Guatemala and Belize, as well as the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. [4]
The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization (2600 BC – 1697 AD), with the country's modern history beginning with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin, located in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned.
t. e. 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 ] Modern scholars regard these periods as arbitrary divisions of chronology of the Maya ...
Tikal (/ tiˈkɑːl /; Tik'al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, [2] found in a rainforest in Guatemala. [3] It is one of the largest archeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archeological region of the Petén ...
Kaminaljuyu (pronounced / k æ m i n æ l ˈ h uː j uː /; from Kʼicheʼʼ, "The Hill of the Dead" [1]) is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization located in Guatemala City. Primarily occupied from 1500 BC to 1200 AD, [ 2 ] it has been described as one of the greatest archaeological sites in the New World [ 3 ] —although the extant ...
During the Early Classic period, the Maya cities of Tikal and Kaminaljuyu were key Maya foci in a network that extended into the highlands of central Mexico; [8] there was a strong Maya presence at the Tetitla compound of Teotihuacan. [9] The Maya city of Chichen Itza and the distant Toltec capital of Tula had an especially close relationship. [10]
The Maya (/ ˈmaɪə /) are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. The ancient Maya civilization was formed by members of this group, and today's Maya are generally descended from people who lived within that historical region. Today they inhabit southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and westernmost El Salvador and Honduras.
Yaxha (or Yaxhá in Spanish orthography) is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the northeast of the Petén Basin in modern-day Guatemala. As a ceremonial centre of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, Yaxha was the third largest city in the region and experienced its maximum power during the Early Classic period (c. AD 250–600).