Scientists have named a new reason for the decline of the Mayan civilization.

An international team of scientists has found that one of the reasons for the decline of the Mayan civilization about 1.1 thousand years ago could be a decrease in the predictability of seasonal rains. Agriculture depended heavily on them, and because of droughts, famine began. The famine affected the Mayan population. For a century and a half, representatives of civilization have become 60-70% less from the original 5-10 million people.