Maya civilization - What exactly happened that brought an end to this ancient civilization

You must have seen the news about 21 December 2012 in the newspapers and TV somewhere in the past, and now you must be wondering what is this question all about? There is a reason for asking this question, in fact, it was predicted before 2012 that the apocalypse would come to Earth on December 21, 2012, causing the world to end. Do you know who announces this prophecy? if not, then let us tell you that this predictor was not someone else but a calendar of Maya civilization, although this prediction proved to be wrong. But after listening to this, a question must be arising in your mind that what is this Maya calendar, and who has made it. So let's tell you today the true truth of the Mayan-calendar.

But before knowing the Mayan calendar, we have to know the Mayan civilization first, which did this amazing work even before knowing the future. But today this civilization has become extinct like other civilizations. It is said that the people of the Maya civilization were more advance in their times, they were very intelligent like the humans of today, and their architecture was exceptionally good. The Maya civilization is considered the most prosperous and intelligent in history, people of this civilization had achieved a lot in a short time. Although the people of this civilization lived in the forests, but they built such cities there which were no less than today's cities. These cities were so large that about one lakh people could live comfortably in them. People born in the 16th century were surprised when they saw the cities of Maya, and experts saw with astonishing eyes how beautifully the Maya civilization has done this work which was so amazing.

But now the question is how the Maya civilization started. Some people believe that it started in America and some believe that it is a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilization. It is said that where there is today Yucatan of Mexico, once people of Maya civilization were settled there, it is also called Mesoamerican civilization. Maya's people were inhabited in Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, and the Yucatan Peninsula. It was an important civilization of Mexico, and it is believed that this civilization began around 1500 BC. It is said that the Maya's people were very intelligent, that is why they had good knowledge of art, mathematics, architecture, calendar, astronomical system, and hieroglyphic writing.

During this period, agriculture and the city developed, this includes pyramids among the most important buildings of the civilization, which the Mayan people built as religious centers, known as pyramid-temples. For this reason, this civilization is also called the golden age of artistic development. The greatest feature of the people of this civilization was their astronomical knowledge, which is probably why they made the prophetic calendar. These People also made a calendar for birth-death-related records in addition to various events and religious festivals, and do you know what the name of this calendar was. 

Actually, it is the same calendar that predicted the end of the world in 2012, and its name is the Mayan Calendar. Today's normal calendar is usually for how many days, your answer will be 365 days, but regarding Maya's calendar, it was 260 days a year. In this calendar, the date determined in three ways, consisting of three separate corresponding calendars: the Long Count, the Tzolkin (divine calendar), and the Haab (civil calendar). On this basis, the people of this civilization used to predict the future, and they also believed that when all the dates of this calendar are over, an apocalypse is sure to come on the earth and after which a new era begins. This Maya calendar also predicted the end of the world on "December 21, 2012", but it proved to be wrong. But how sad that such a brilliant civilization is now extinct.

Do you know how this civilization came to an end? It is claimed that the Maya civilization started to become extinct by A.D. 900, along with it, Mayan cities also gradually disappeared. Upon discovery, the remains of this civilization have been found in Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, and Yucatan Peninsula. The Mayan civilization, which existed thousands of years ago on the earth, ended for many reasons, but its end remained a mystery for a long time. Nobody knew how such a well-settled civilization was destroyed. Scientists did a lot of research on this, in which it was found that the era of Mayan civilization brought to an end due to drought. It is said that there was a drought here for more than a hundred years.

Scientists said that for this they had done research on marine life, they took minerals from Belize's famous underwater cave, known as the Blue Hole as well as lagoons nearby. They have considered the Blue Hole to be the biggest cause of the destruction of the Mayan civilization, they have closely studied the color, size, and thickness of the minerals found in this marine cavern or sinkhole. They compared this to the change in the nature of the minerals of the A.D. 800 and A.D. 1000, right when the Mayan civilization collapsed. They found that the ratio of titanium to aluminum changed during that time, as a result, some areas received heavy rainfalls, and some received droughts. Perhaps this is why the Mayan civilization came to an end. However, the real reason for the end of the Mayan civilization is still being discovered, as some believed it to have ended due to foreign invasion and epidemics.