The Rise Of The Mayan Civilization

According to NASA researchers, the Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica was one of the densest populations in human history. Around 800 A.D., after two millennia of steady growth and during the peak of the Mayan Empire, its population reached an all-time high. It averaged 1,550 people per square mile. In comparison, Mexico State, which homes the outskirts of Mexico City’s Metropolitan Area, averaged 1,196 people per square mile in 2014.

It is surprising to learn that one of the most important mysteries to unveil from the Mayan culture, are not the apocallipse predictions, the cause of it’s collapse or if they were actually visited by aliens. The greatest mystery concerning the Mayan civilization is, how did they produce adequate food to feed a population of millions who built the famous Mayan monumental architecture in a rain forest environment with an inadequate water supply and extremely poor limestone soils?
They had to master techniques for an effective water management. “The biggest threat we face doing fieldwork in the Mayan region is dying of thirst,” experts explained. Even the rainforest experiences an annual dry season; the trees hang on by tapping groundwater. “The Maya couldn’t use groundwater because it was 500 feet below them, and they had no technology to reach it, so they depended on