• Director(s):

    VAN WAEREBEKE (DENIS), BOUCHERON (PATRICK)

  • Producer(s):

    LES FILMS D'ICI, ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2026

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

The collapse of the Maya civilization didn't happen.

Long portrayed as a “collapsed” civilization, the Maya owe this image primarily to 19th-century interpretations of their abandoned ruins. In reality, this was not a sudden disappearance but a gradual transformation: population shifts, and social, political, and religious changes. The Mayan languages, which are still spoken today, thus serve as a reminder that archeology debunks the myth of a collapse and restores the truth about the evolution of their history.