Maya Archive
Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Xunantunich, a major ceremonial center of the Maya Civilization, is an ancient Maya archaeological site atop a ridge above the Mopan River, about
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilization collapse. There is no dispute that a series of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many believe climate change and environmental degradation caused the Maya civilization to fall—but a new survey shows that some Maya kingdoms had sustainable
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of international researchers led by the University of Arizona reported last year that they had uncovered the largest and oldest Maya
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have studied how ancient people responded to catastrophic natural events and discovered ancient Maya people used volcanic ash to build some of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient rulers had one thing in common with political leaders today - they were eager to brand themselves. Archaeologists have discovered Maya rulers
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Aztec Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - No doubt, Tezcatlipoca ('Lord оf thе Smоking Mirror') was one of the most powerful deities of pre-Columbian Mexico. Tezcatlipoca "Lord of the Night
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Studies of ancient Maya codices, along with investigations of their glyphs and other important archaeological findings, reveal the Maya developed a special relationship
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Information about ancient history can be obtained through a variety of means, even somewhat unusual ways. Scientists have used a news tool that
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Edzná is an ancient place populated in 400 BC and abandoned c. 1500 AD. It is a Maya archaeological site in the north of the Mexican state of Campeche.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - "Chac Mool" (chacmool, or chaacmol) is one of Mexico's most famous Pre-Columbian statues. Chac-Mool altars are generally found at the entrance to Toltec temples
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Every society has some degree of wealth inequality—over history, in different cultures across continents. There always seem to be some people who have
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the first time, Washington State University researchers have identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers. The team
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Maya in the once-bustling city of Tikal built sophisticated water filters using natural materials they imported from miles away, according to new
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - All Maya regulated their lives by the sacred calendar and their belief that supernatural beings had the power to intervene in human affairs
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Reservoirs in the heart of an ancient Maya city were so polluted with mercury and algae that the water likely was undrinkable in
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - History has a way of not being kind to individuals, or historians, human sources, and other fact-gathering mechanisms are not kind to historical
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have once again used LIDAR technology with success. Using light detection and ranging technology scientists have located the world's oldest and largest
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya believed that the underworld – Xibalba - was a ‘place of fear’. In some ancient accounts, it is a domain of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The mighty Calusa ruled South Florida for centuries, wielding military power, trading and collecting tribute along routes that sprawled hundreds of miles, creating
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Abaj Takalik (also Tak'alik Ab'aj means 'standing stone' in the local K'iche' Maya language) has a pre-Columbian origin. The earliest known occupation at
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old stela known as Stela 87 was recently found by archaeologists working at the Tak'alik Ab'aj archaeological park in El Asintal, 85
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The long-lost capital of an ancient Maya kingdom in the backyard of a Mexican cattle rancher has been discovered by associate professor of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Gonzalo Guerrero dreamed about visiting foreign lands and meeting exotic people when he was a small boy. He had heard about Christopher Columbus's
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 8,000 tree-shrouded structures of varying sizes along the sacbe (white road) - with enough total volume to fill approximately 2,900 Olympic
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a large palace at the Mayan city of Kulubá in Yucatán. According to the first reports, it seems the structure
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When the Conquistadors came to explore the New World in the early 16th century, they heard rumors about a magnificent wealthy city of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers analyzed the role of diet in the ability of the ancient Maya to withstand periods of severe climatic stress. An increase in the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the mythology of Maya peoples from the Yucatán Peninsula and Guatemala, there are tales of curious creatures called aluxes. They are believed to
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Archaeoastronomy
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient astronomical observatories can be found on both American continents and elsewhere. Ancient people who built ziggurats, temples, and observatories, aligned them to exact
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The largest known figurine workshop in the Mayan world, has been discovered by archaeologists working in Guatemala. The workshop dated to between 750
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David Tee - AncientPages.com - Deep in the heart of the Guatemalan jungle lies a little forgotten city. It is called today El Mirador, and in its heyday, it could
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the three largest and most important Mayan city-states, next to Tikal (Guatemala) and Palenque, was Calakmul ("City of the Two Adjacent Pyramids").
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The enigmatic moon has always fascinated humanity. Its brilliant presence in the night sky, was the symbol of hope and enlightenment. As often as
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Today the Actun Tunichil Muknal (Cave of the Stone Sepulcher) is a national park and major tourist attraction drawing hundreds of people visiting this
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