ABSTRACT
The ancient Maya inspire awe and fascination in each of us today as they did to the first explorers more than two centuries ago, because of their cities buried in the tropical jungle and because so much about them is unknown. Two basic questions about them are: Where did they come from? And why did they disappear? The answers remain shrouded in an aura of mystery. This book explores their earliest beginnings with the hope that knowledge of how they built their civilization will also give us clues to what caused them to decline.
