Word: mayamania
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...Mayamania A series of dramatic discoveries -- including four lost cities in the jungles of southern Belize -- shed new light on the ancient civilization of the Maya, which flourished in Central America between the years 250 and 900 and then suddenly collapsed, apparently the victim of infighting, overpopulation and reckless destruction of the rain forest...
Among the already addicted, Mayamania is easy to explain. Says Arthur Demarest, a Vanderbilt University archaeologist who for the past four years has led a team of researchers unearthing the remains of Dos Pilas, a onetime Maya metropolis in northern Guatemala: "You've got lost cities in the jungle, secret inscriptions that only a few people can read, tombs with treasures in them, and then the mystery of why it all collapsed...
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