Classical Pre-Classic Maya town in Guatemala: Cival: A
Pre-Classic Maya Site in the News by Mesoweb.

Following the archaeology of the urban Maya civilization
- urban because the Maya are still among us, their civilization
is not gone, but the urban phase of it has - is fascinating,
because you can really see usually slow humanistic branch
of science in action. The picture of urban Maya civilization
goes through changes every few years and a lost historical
era is revealed to us, like the surface of some distant planet
is revealed to us by generations of probes, in greater detail
by every new probe (that succeeds in it´s mission).

The modern history of Maya is another thing, because most
of it is so damn sad. They have faced the same problems that
most indigenous groups have had to face in the world, and
worse than most: the genocide of the Maya population of
Guatemala during the civil war is one of the forgotten genocides.
Over 150 000 dead and only a few low-ranking persons have
been brought to trial. The new Berger government has promised
change to this, but may be forgetting that promise already.