Dawn of the Maya

Through breathtaking discoveries, archaeologists are uncovering the early years of the ancient Maya to reveal a dynamic, sophisticated culture that was flourishing before the time of Christ. The Preclassic Maya—once dismissed as primitive—created massive pyramids, elaborate art, early writing, and more. Investigate the rise of one of the world's greatest and most mysterious civilizations. Journey to the latest digs in the Guatemalan jungle that are reshaping our understanding of the extraordinary Mayan civilization in "Dawn of the Maya."

The great city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula is probably the best known vestige of the Mayan civilization, which at its height during the classic period, from about AD 250-900, rivaled those of Egypt and Rome. The established chronology of the development of Mayan societies has been called into question recently with the exciting finds at sites from the pre-classic period, c. 2000 BC to AD 240, in the ancient Guatemalan cities of Cival, San Bartolo, and El Mirador. The discoveries, among them a giant carved stone mask of a sun god in Cival, a mural depicting the Mayan creation myth in San Bartolo, and a massive pyramid amid the ruins of El Mirador, point to the flowering of the civilization several centuries earlier than previously thought, with the characteristics of the advanced cities of the classic period, including kings, palaces, intricate iconography, and elaborate rituals objects.

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