Fall Of The Maya KingsJanuary 24, 2025

One of the great mysteries of history is how the ancient Maya built such an incredible society in a tropical rainforest over two thousand years - and then vanished. The collapse of the southern Maya civilisation is a dramatic and chilling story of power, god-kings, climate change, war, desperation and escalating sacrifice. Through new science and new discoveries, the incredible story of the fall of the ancient Maya kings can be told - by the ancient Maya themselves.

Fall Of The Maya Kings was broadcast on SBS ONE at Friday 24 January 2025, 06:05.