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For more than a thousand years, the Mayans built a civilization in the jungle—creating pyramids, sculptures, and paintings.
Then, around AD 800, they all but disappeared. Science detective Dick Gill has spent nearly two decades proving his theory that a devastating drought wiped out the Maya. The show follows Jill on a journey of discovery: to an archaeological site in Belize where there is evidence of sudden abandonment.
Geologists have taken cores from a remote lake in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, showing evidence of unusually dry conditions when the Mayan civilization collapsed.
And visit the slopes of the bubbling Popocatepetl volcano, looking for evidence of an eruption that may have sparked a drought.
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