![]() ![]() ![]() The most notable monuments are the pyramids they built in their religious centers and the accompanying palaces of their rulers. They developed an agriculturally intensive, city-centered empire consisting of numerous independent city-states. The Maya developed the famed cities of Tikal, Palenque, Copán and Kalakmul, as well as Dos Pilas, Uaxactun, Altun Ha, Bonampak and many other sites in the area. ![]() Eventually, the Olmec culture faded after spreading its influence into the Yucatan peninsula, present-day Guatemala, and other regions. The earliest monuments consist of simple burial mounds, the precursors to pyramids erected in later times. The Olmec and early Maya seem to have influenced each other. There is some disagreement about the borders and difference between the early Maya and their neighboring Pre-Classic Mesoamerican civilization, the Olmec culture. Contrary to popular myth, the Maya people never "disappeared." Millions still live in the region, and many of them still speak one of the Maya family of languages.Īrchaeological evidence shows the Maya started to build ceremonial architecture approximately 3000 years ago. The Maya were part of the Mesoamerican Pre-Columbian cultures. The Maya are people of southern Mexico and northern Central America (Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and El Salvador) with some 3,000 years of history.
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