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Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...
Deep in the Guatemalan jungle lies the remains of an ancient city forgotten about for nearly 3,000 years, experts reveal.
Archaeologists working in the dense jungles of northern Guatemala have uncovered the remains of an ancient Maya city that ...
Ancestor worship was important and similar to the Shang dynasty in China and also the ancient Egyptians, at around the same time (1500 BC). Maya households ... tied to the calendar and astronomy ...
For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?
The ancient Maya, whose world was one of vivid cultural ... which were scheduled based on an extremely complex calendar system and called for specialized clothing and accessories, from elaborate ...
At the heart of Tatsuo Miyajima’s art lies a deceptively simple medium: digital LED counters, their numbers blinking in a ...
The Maya created precise calendars and observatories that tracked ... Chichen Itza is one of the most instantly recognizable of all Mayan ancient sites. Set in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula ...
Maya civilization was hegemonic and consisted of numerous, independent power centers unified by common languages, calendars ... Maya cities such as Tikal. (Ancient Maya believed a rain god ...
The Mayan civilization was one of the foremost to have developed the Mayan astrology system Mayan astrology is based the on the 260day ceremonial calendar called the Tzolkin which was used by the Maya ...