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  • How infighting led the Maya civilization to catastrophic collapse

    How infighting led the Maya civilization to catastrophic collapse0

    The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya David Stuart Princeton Univ. Press (2026) Before the 1970s, ancient Maya history was impenetrable. The civilization’s grand ceremonial buildings and striking art, created in parts of Mesoamerica during the Classic Maya period (ad 150–900) had tantalized foreign visitors since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in

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