Before the last glacier of the Ice Age melted northward, a wandering people traveled from Asia to America across a natural bridge of land which melted away into the Bering Strait. The islands between Asia and Alaska used to be the mountain tops of the sunken land.
Most scientists agree that the journeying took place between ten and twenty thousand years ago.
The territory covered by this Mayan.civilization was less than half the size of Texas. To the south the land of the Maya included the beautiful highlands and plateaus Guatemalaa and a small northern corner of Honduras. Its central area extended roughly west to the Gulf of Mexico. Peten is famous for its lush, steamy rainforest. At the top of the Yucatan Penninsula is a low plain country, its dry meager soil covering the earth's limestone crust.