Dozens of rival Maya kingdoms — Tikal, Calakmul, Palenque, Copán — raised limestone temple-pyramids, carved dated stelae, and fought the great Tikal–Calakmul superpower war across the southern lowlands.
The southern lowland cities collapsed during the 8th–9th centuries: stelae stopped, courts emptied, and the populations dispersed, ending the Classic order long before Spanish contact.
The atlas holds 10 border frames for Classic Maya (Lowland City-States) — the shape you scrub through changes in 250 · 300 · 359 · 400 · 426 · 550 · 751 · 761 · 809 · 851.
A landmark Cambridge scholarly collection on the dynastic and political history of the Classic lowland Maya city-states.
A narrative history of Classic Maya kingship drawn from the decipherment of the glyphs.