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• Sunday, January 4th 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Prolonged extreme droughts could help to explain collapse of Mayan civilization

  

  The mysterious collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization has been attributed to a variety of factors, most notably overhunting, deforestation, and a catastrophic peasant uprising. However the theory of prolonged extreme drought has been gaining ground among the scientific community in recent years regarding the Mayan demise.