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Great Blue Hole off Belize yields new clues to fall of Mayan civilisation

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Research supports theory that drought and climate conditions reduced Mayans from a regional power to survivors abandoning cities to virtual extinction. A massive underwater sinkhole surrounded by reefs, caves and sharks has provided archaeologists with clues in the mystery of the fall of the Mayan civilization, according to new research. Scientists from Rice University and […]

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